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Ep 207: Deedee Benyi on Understanding the Business and Supporting Multiple Executives

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In this episode, Deedee talks about how to understand the business so you can better support your executive team, supporting multiple executives, creating a professional and personal brand, as well as championing the collective administrative professional brand. Watch the short, animated #AssistantsLEAD video mentioned in this episode.

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The Magic of Intrapreneurship Within Organizations

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While suited up and on his way out the door to a job interview, he boasts to his family, “I don’t need an edge. In a letter to would-be shareholders in 2004, the co-founders noted that the habit “empowers [employees] to be more creative and innovative,” and that many significant advances happened during that allocated time.

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004. Researchers interviewed participants for hours about everything from their political views to diet preferences. They recorded everything from earlobes (free or attached?)

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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

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Maria graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Political Science, won the title of Miss Kentucky and competed in Miss America in 2004. At age 9, she set goals to become the first college graduate in her family and to earn the title of Miss Kentucky.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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Thanks to people like him, we now know that diverse teams tend to outperform their more uniform counterparts. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji for Harvard Business School in 2004, Childs, as vice president of workforce diversity, executed a plan that created eight task forces. “You don’t hate them more than you love money.”

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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In 2004 Blakely tackled another hurdle when she appeared on a reality show with Richard Branson called The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best , a sort-of cross between The Apprentice and The Amazing Race. You would realize like, Oh well, I didn’t make the team, but I met my best friend in tryouts.

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They also joined The John Maxwell Team and were certified as coaches, trainers, speakers and teachers. Together Atkinson and Meier operate the Atkinson Team at eXp Realty, with Atkinson as the CEO and Meier as the COO. Since then, she has built both a local and nationwide team of over 770 agents. Gogo Bethke.

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