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How To Design Workplaces For Neurodivergent Employees

Allwork

Autism is one form of neurological difference which comes under the umbrella of neurodiversity, which refers to the different ways the brain can work and interpret information, highlighting that there are many ways of thinking, sensing, and interacting with the world. One contributing factor is the way workspaces are designed.

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

Success

The prospect is now a patient and has referred dozens of friends. In a study published in Psychological Science , Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov reveal that it takes only a tenth of a second to form an impression of someone when you first meet. This article was published in April 2018 and has been updated.

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Online Platforms Enabling the Rise of Global Micro Outsourcing Firms

Small Business Labs

Glocalization  refers to the integration of local differences in the cost and availability of skills to a standardized global structure that enables their use. This is also referred to as geoarbitrage, which is tapping into lower cost labor from lower cost countries. From our point of view, both points of view are correct.

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21 Ways to Read More Books

Success

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. I sit in my quiet place early in the morning with a cup of coffee and a legal pad.

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Jonathan Price Financial Expert | What Happened to WeWork?

Allwork

There was years ago a firm called Allwork.Space, which was formed as a roll up of other independent centers, but they crashed and burned, unfortunately. So we could be looking at quite a huge portion of the market being taken up with flexible space in its many forms. But no company has ever sustainably managed to achieve that status.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

Ideas.Ted

When 37-year-old neuroscientist Jill Bolte-Taylor had a massive stroke in 1996, she lost her ability to form words and move her body but also experienced what she would later describe in her TED Talk as “euphoria”. Here, she shares what has happened since her recovery and corrects common misconceptions about how brains function.

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These are the Productivity Tools I Love

Productivityist

But we’re working on that for 2018. It handles all of my reference material and research. I use it to play music for bursts of time and each composition holds some form of musicality that promotes productivity. Enter the contest here or use the form below. Stay tuned…). But I don’t always want familiar songs playing.