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The Nathalie Virem Foundation Helps Leaders Rediscover Their Purpose

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In 2018, she created the Nathalie Virem Foundation , a nonprofit with the same purpose as her company: to empower leaders to discover their purpose, both for themselves and to affect positive change in their communities. It was in helping others find their purpose that Virem, at last, felt she’d found her own.

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The Savannah Bananas Created Their Own Version of Baseball by Putting Fans First

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When the Coles arrived at their new stadium in October 2015, it was completely deserted, the phone and internet lines cut, the stadium stripped bare. I got a phone call that we’d overdrafted our account and the team was out of money,” Cole says. “So, As a matter of fact, Cole’s rarely sitting at all. So, we sold our house.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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21 Ways to Read More Books

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A high frequency of reading may decrease the risk of cognitive decline, according to a 14-year longitudinal study published in 2020, and might even help to “delay or prevent dementia in older adults,” according to a 2018 study published in JAMA Psychiatry. Figure out what you want to remember from each book you read. Take notes.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

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Flocc alternates heads-down “red time” with Swedish fika ( a coffee break), while Glasgow call center Pursuit Marketing offers workers free breakfast before they hit the phones. Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

He can ignore e-mails, but it is hard to ignore me :) When you are copied on an e-mail, read the whole message, don’t just skim it. If you have been asked to do something and don’t fully understand what is expected of you, don’t be afraid to ask questions. There could be a message for you.