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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

Success

They are what’s known as “liveaboards,” a breed of digital nomad on the water, with Sophie managing their digital brand, Ryan & Sophie Sailing , while Ryan works as a business development consultant. Before officially shoving off in 2018, Ellison and Darsy led what some might call typical lives. These are five of those lessons.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. Manager Support. Managing Office Technology. Supporting Multiple Managers. Task and Project Management. Time Management.

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Shining a Light on Black Assistants: It’s Not Black & White

Bonnie Low Kramen

I wrote an article in 2018 called “ Times Up for the Boss ” and I raise these ideas in our Be the Ultimate Assistant workshops. Most (not all) of our students choose to find other words to refer to their leaders, such as manager, executive, supervisor, and leader, to name a few options. Anonymous Black EAs – In their words. “As

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

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For that matter, who needs to travel to a meeting? Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. She recommends Elance.com [now Upwork] as a virtual human resources department for hiring and managing people.

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Decoding Decision-Making: Andrea Pirrotti-Dranchak’s Insights on Marketing Strategies

Allwork

We know that in our world, typically people will travel 15 minutes max, not miles, but minutes max in order to get to the workplace. Overall, as we look towards marketing and we look towards changes in the way marketing is managed. So the marketing process, I would say, doesn’t stop when the customer purchases.

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

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Leading from Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams by David Burkus (TED Talk: Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid ) . Hard to believe, but in 2018, only roughly 3 percent of US employees worked from home, reports management researcher David Burkus. Read an excerpt here. ) .

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