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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

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Before officially shoving off in 2018, Ellison and Darsy led what some might call typical lives. They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. These are five of those lessons.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

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

Bonnie Low Kramen

They will be unnamed for several reasons, but certainly one of them is due to the lasting trauma and fear over the events of May 25, 2020 when the murder of George Floyd happened in Minneapolis and brought issues of systemic racism to the forefront of American conversation. It translates to the word “master,” as in “master and slave.”

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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? They allow business owners to create systems, automation and infrastructure in a matter of minutes, while simultaneously enabling them to build credibility and compete at a higher level.”. Scott Gerber is just as comfortable working at home , in coffee shops or in shared workspaces.

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

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Systemic racism isn’t a vague notion, but a real enemy that may turn and come after me, at the moment when I am too joyful to pay attention,” writes Austin Channing Brown in 1 of the 20 essays curated by #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke and researcher Brené Brown. Eventually, she traveled to visit those who wrote to her.

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