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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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They can focus on fiction or nonfiction, have themes to guide book choices, and be organized through places like work, school, professional organizations, religious groups and libraries. Launched in San Francisco in 2012, this movement especially appeals to introverts. Book clubs come in all shapes and sizes.

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Looking to Excel in Your Career? Business Coach Melanie Towey Recommends Starting with Self-Investment

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This is what she asks of the women in her Denver-based networking happy hour group UNSUBSCRIBE, and it’s what she asks of the leadership teams she helps become more functional and cohesive through the work she does in her own company.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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Does the organization share your values ? Principal Company: Jennifer Schaus & Associates, a government contract consulting network Strategic partnership philosophy: Align consultants with different specialties to better serve clients and boost everyone’s bottom line. Then call up past business partners, employers and employees.”

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” And some organizations are looking to help change that. of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% trillion.”

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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

Small Business Labs

  2012 will see more small businesses recognize and take advantage of this key competitive advantage.   This growing ability to network, collaborate and socialize is making independent work more attractive, and 2012 will see the trend towards independent work continue to grow.    Technology Trends.

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From Cubicles To Community Hubs: Reimagining Work As An Activity, Not A Place

Allwork

On the most recent Future of Work podcast episode, we were joined by Dave Cairns, who has transitioned from a successful career as a professional poker player to join CBRE in 2012 where he is now a Senior Vice President. Instead, they continue to thrive, serving as meeting places for networking, brainstorming, or simply unwinding.

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4 Easy Ways to Make Your Career Better in 2012

On The Job

Not only will it make me a better networker, but I think it will just make me happier to have a lunch with a nice person instead of the New York Times. Here's some ideas to make 2012 better: 1. Join a professional organization. Join a professional organization. It doesn't have to be directly related to your field.

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