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APRIL 28, 2023

Kiersten and Julien Saunders’ story spans nearly 10 years, from meeting at the company where they both worked to breaking up and making up, and beginning a career together in the very field that had ended their relationship in the first place—and that was only the beginning.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 26, 2017

VC investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning more than doubled in 2016, according to the National Venture Capital Association. As the chart below (click to enlarge) from the Axios article Venture Capital Investment in AI skyrockets shows, VCs have continued to pour money into AI in 2017.

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MARCH 1, 2023

That means speaking up for the things you believe in, taking risks and pushing yourself beyond the norm. Read: What I Learned From 30 Days of Positive Thinking 3. Read: How I Learned to (at Least Try to) Get My Way 5. Take our quiz to learn whether you need to take it down a notch. Talk it out to build self-confidence.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

But from each failure, we learn two equally valuable lessons: That there was at least one reason we failed, and that we can rebound from that failure. Do your best to learn everything you can about what happened and why. Some people live and learn, and some only live. This article was published in June 2017 and has been updated.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 2, 2017

Sharing best practice for assistants: Through best practice assistants can learn, grow and add new skills to their tool kits. We also had the wonderful Simone White speaking about her incredible journey setting up the internal network at BlackRock. We will share best practice throughout the day.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Workspace management systems free up receptionists’ time so that you can book a desk, meeting room, or phone booth in a workspace by yourself. Data collection is highly useful for workspace operators to learn how and when coworkers use the workspace and which community events prove most popular.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Because of the many instances of creative block I’ve encountered in my life—and the intense level of procrastination growing inside me—I’ve learned how to harness those blank moments and still make them count. Give it space to learn simply from thinking rather than experiencing. I call them blank moments. Acknowledge it.

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MARCH 23, 2023

Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days of the Los Angeles-based company and how she got involved: Working in the music industry, Hamilton learned about startups and networked with investors and entrepreneurs. When she started Backstage, Arlan went all in on this idea.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Learn to love mistakes. Always remember to learn from your mistakes and keep growing. But learning to say yes more can help you to open up, try new things and bring you new opportunities. But learning to say yes more can help you to open up, try new things and bring you new opportunities. Say yes often.

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MARCH 19, 2023

Or did you start a novel that you haven’t picked up again in months? I like to take an hour a day on the treadmill while reading and learning something. You’d be amazed at how those three to five minutes of updating your timeline to see the newest Tweets can add up to a waste of time. Learn to say no to make time for reading.

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APRIL 5, 2023

I was also pregnant with my fourth child, had two kids attempting the hot mess that was remote learning, a husband stealing parts of my desk for his Zoom calls and about all the chaos possible. In a recent KinderCare Learning Companies study with Harris Poll, 41% of participants said hybrid models are ideal, an increase of 5% from 2022.

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MARCH 20, 2024

But one thing we know to be true is that relationships often require work, whether it be communicating more effectively, learning to set boundaries, or just generally trying to show up more in your friendships, romantic partnerships and professional connections. We all approach them differently, especially since each is so unique.

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JUNE 13, 2023

And as that fame grew, so did his fortune—which he immediately started giving away, first in a hefty donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, then to the county’s mental health services. What we ended up agreeing on was that merchandise would be the best way to monetize my music. That idea ended up snowballing,” Chance says. “I

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MARCH 21, 2024

Even though she experienced success at her job and was promoted to service manager, she wasn’t interested in moving up the corporate ladder—since she would then no longer work with “real car owners.” Milchtein created her website, Mechanic Shop Femme in June 2017, and it’s still an excellent resource today. “I Where’s this going?”

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

If you are part of a small company, consider finding a sister company with similar values and lining up mentors and protégés. Setting up regular sessions, general goals, desired outcomes and a template for discussions can be helpful and is more likely to yield a concrete result. Start with a pilot mentorship program.

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

Reminding oneself of the wisdom we have learned from our teachers, from our reading, from our own experiences. Some like to pull up an empty document on their computer and record thoughts. This article was published in November 2017 and has been updated. But in Stoicism, the art of journaling is more than simply keeping a diary.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Many times, it feels as though it would be easier to just give up and throw in the towel rather than stay motivated. Get motivated, get on purpose, and you won’t feel like giving up. All of my best successes came on the heels of a failure , so I’ve learned to look at each belly flop as the beginning of something good.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

I’ve come to realize that sometimes my creativity seizes up and needs a reboot the same way my computer does. In addition to learning about Freud, Skinner and Maslow, we were also exposed to the idea of alternative uses testing. I give myself two minutes to come up with at least a dozen different uses for the thingamajig.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In his book, The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships , Michael P. I’m scared to get up in front of the crowd.”). When your spouse tells you they can’t leave work to pick up the kids, you probably want to respond, “I can’t either!” Trust blossoms when people feel heard and understood.

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JULY 19, 2021

Learning how to budget your attention is an essential skill in the Attention Economy. Every moment of every day there is something begging for your attention: emails to reply to, texts to send, phone calls to answer, pop-up ads to sit through. When I wake up, I don’t look at my phone, log on to my computer or turn on the TV.

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MAY 17, 2022

When you’re communicating with other people, you need to be aware of your inner monologue so you don’t end up taking out a bad mood on someone else, assuming the other person can read your mind, being discriminatory, appearing unconfident and so on. Knowing your audience’s motivations, preferred communication styles, learning styles, etc.,

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Learn to make your words count. Remember what you’ve learned, and ask follow-up questions about your new acquaintance’s family, hobbies and career goals at your next encounter. Tough way to learn a lesson, but what an important lesson to learn. Want to build strong partnerships? Here are the key elements: 1.

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Allwork

JUNE 9, 2022

Navigating new methods of working means more than setting up a workspace at home. For many, it has required hours of learning new programs and other software to make their lives easier. . A 2017 study from the American Journal of Health Promotion showed that more than 46% of employers provided some form of wellness programs. .

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They only loosely knew one another then, despite much overlap—both women grew up in Houston, graduated from Texas A&M University and have connections to Bolivia. Gore chalks up lessons learned that include spending too much time raising venture capital rather than focusing on sales and hiring too slowly and not firing fast enough.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Test to learn. But here’s the difference: They assess ideas based on testing to learn and testing to succeed, versus testing to fail or testing to try. This allows their teams to develop ideas more completely, or to come up with ideas that they may not have discovered alone. They are continually measuring and testing new ideas.

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DECEMBER 3, 2022

I have been bulldozed and taken advantage of plenty of times while learning the ins and outs of life. Now, I feel compelled to stand up for myself at the first sign of injustice. Yet more often than not, after carefully editing my own email and sending it off while I’m still brooding, I end up regretting the swift response.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In 2017, he found himself in a mentally rough spot. So, I basically showed up to therapy in a suit to give myself that self-confidence.” He had also always been into fashion, from looking at stitching patterns to learning about where items were milled. Men break into smaller groups and open up about how the topics affect them.

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MARCH 24, 2023

This is also where many leaders come up short. I’ve learned the hard way that trying to oversee all aspects of a new project is simply too daunting, complicated and frustrating. You’ve lived the hard knocks, tallied the successes, learned from the rise and fall of others. Fuel your staff, then get out of the way. Add your voice.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

After launching an inclusive salon and accompanying philanthropic organization in Detroit in 2017, their next big project (they’re two of the advisors for First Women’s Bank) combines their decades of philanthropic and entrepreneurial experience. Nia Batts grew up in Detroit. I think being underestimated can be incredible fuel.”.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Three of my trained Productivityist Coaching Practitioners will be working with me consistently to level up their skill set and help the program evolve as a whole. I’m also at the point where I can create a more formal training process that I’ll be testing later in 2017 with current Productivityist Coaching Practitioners.

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

Because I felt like I wasn’t living up to my potential. One of the most frustrating things about living up to your potential is how unaware we are of any progress that we’re making. But my evenings were taken up by repeatedly lifting heavy things, and I didn’t have time to go to extracurricular activities, networking or social events.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

So I consulted the best possible advisers I could imagine to learn how to stop being late: people who consistently, miraculously, arrive not just on time but ahead of it. Expect the worst and bump up your departure time accordingly. This article was published in February 2017 and has been updated. How to stop being late.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Entrepreneur Steve MacDonald inched his way up Cotopaxi, a 20,000-foot tall volcano in Ecuador. He looked up toward a peak he couldn’t see. Exhaustion swallowed him, taunted him, told him to give up. But you also realize, if I [mess] this up, I’m literally going to slide off this mountain, and you’ll never see me again.”.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 27, 2017

I woke up this morning with the strange realization that this is my very last day with Office Dynamics International. I’d love to share these ten consistent messages that I’ve learned over and over during my time here at Office Dynamics working with the legend that is Joan Burge. My lesson learned here is own your mistakes.

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MAY 19, 2023

Shari Leid, author of The Friendship Series , experienced its powers firsthand when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017. Through the journaling process, I learned to trust myself. The Improvisor Tool: prompts, like for an improv show Method: Look up journaling prompts that get your mind thinking. Photo by ©Wendy K.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Robbins recalls growing up with nothing and scraping pennies together to buy his first suit. “My A UPS employee who never earned more than $14,000 in a year, Johnson was eventually worth a staggering $70 million. He’s not afraid to be honest and stresses that it’s the only way to push through setbacks and learn from your mistakes.

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MARCH 8, 2023

And the pool of millennial small-business owners is growing—just last year, they made up only 7% of the survey sample. In her 2017 book, A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug , she writes, “There’s something liberating about realizing that owning your motherhood could give just as many benefits in public life as denying it.”

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