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Angelos Michalopoulos and Vassiliki Petridou Own a Third of Ios Island in Greece—Here’s Why They Won’t Develop More than 1% of It

Success

Their passion project: Preserving 99% of their land The last option is the one that Michalopoulos and Petridou chose with their land. “We In 2004, the couple began purchasing land before opening Agalia hotel and Calilo resort in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

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Spring means new acquaintances and new projects

Loosely Speaking

RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Springtime also heralds the start of allergy season, and this means more time spent indoors than I would like. It’s also an opportunity to dig through my assorted knitting bags to see what might be languishing there, forgotten. Loose Ends. All Rights Reserved.

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Success is in the Little Details

On The Job

LEGO executives – who had been told countless times by experts that they were in trouble because future generations would lose interest in the building blocks – decided to pay an 11-year-old boy a visit in 2004. Overall, LEGO projects became more labor intensive.

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A workplace for entrepreneurial mindsets to thrive should be your goal

Workplace Insight

It was January 2004. If you work with teammates or report to a manager, do you ask their permission for every step you take in a project? In my experience, a proposed new idea or project is, at the outset, little more than a bundle of hypotheses that will either prove to be correct or rejected through experiments. Surely not.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Small Business CEO

While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. From that project she got referrals and commissions, to the extent that she was making so much money at it, she wondered why she was going to graduate school at all. Then a Cadillac Escalade sideswiped me on my way home one evening.

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Quiet Quitting = Suffering in Silence. Silence isn’t good. Period. By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

Back in 2004, quiet quitting was called “ presenteeism.” The disrespect can be about a myriad of issues – being overlooked for a raise, not being asked to work on a project, rules not being fairly applied, experiencing discrimination, or not being praised in a meeting when others were. Lots of uncomfortable feelings.

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