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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

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.” From her starting $18,000 salary, Low-Kramen would negotiate each year with Dukakis directly, since there’s no human-resources department for such roles. Today, Low-Kramen said, a starting salary for a celebrity personal assistant on call 24/7 can typically hit the low six figures.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

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This job also meant that I had to spend a lot of time with Olympia and the whole creative team. In 2004, I gave Olympia the final draft of my book “Be the Ultimate Assistant” to review and offered her free rein to take out anything she did not like. As an English and Theatre major at Rutgers University , this job was perfect for me.

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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.” John scored a 4.

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