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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

I would like to address the recent article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2020 by Rachel Feintzeig regarding The Vanishing Executive Assistant. And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away.

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12 Efficiency Secrets of the World’s Busiest People

Success

Looking at your phone you find three texts that say, “Hey is this meeting happening?”. Most achievers have no trouble codifying clear goals but then let time-sucking “opportunities” creep into calendars. Set regular, non-negotiable shipping goals that leave you not quite enough time to finish. His response?

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. Work gets whatever space is left in our calendars. Great work is almost never urgent work, and so we get swept away by the ringing phone, the jerk in traffic, the phone bill that’s overdue. Try it; this will change your world.

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