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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). For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. This is not smart.

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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

Success

Nicole Aunapu Mann and Katya Echazarreta both made history in 2022 as the first Native American woman and the first Mexican-born American woman, respectively, to travel to space. Charpentier and Doudna received the Nobel for their work on the technology of genome editing. As of 2022, the U.S.

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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. After negotiations with one organization, I ended up agreeing to the initial salary offered (knowing the position called for considerably more). It translates to the word “master,” as in “master and slave.”

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