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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. I was equipped with both and strong leadership skills that could help me succeed anywhere. “If She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo. Morales thought, All this for a cellphone ticket?

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Master the Sales Mindset to Land Your Biggest Clients

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This holds true for a piece of manufacturing equipment, life insurance, clothing or dessert at a restaurant, he says. In stepping up your own game, get specific about how you open each phone call, your choice of words and even how you title your emails , Cathcart says. Then, they defend those decisions with logic.

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Will new technology eradicate the need for assistants?

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve just been reading this fantastic article by Richard Branson on LinkedIn where he discusses how much he values his assistant. In fact, I know of one senior director that has decided to go it alone and is at this very moment using his smart phone and tablet as his very own Miss Moneypenny.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

The vast majority of workers report that they are equipped with landline telephones (86 percent) and desktop computers (80 percent). Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. This article originally appeared in the July 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. She woke him up at 5:30 a.m. Sally Deneen. 17 for the story).

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Minimum Life Traveling Baggage

Brilliantly Better

Tweet If I look back at the most successful posts on this blog (and there are more than 500 articles published so far) they’re all emerged as part of interactions, not as standalone revelations or epiphanies. It’s a nice to have equipment but also requires a great deal of attention. Local Phone Cards. DSLR Camera. Sun Glasses.

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New Hire Overload

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was taken on a tour of the premises and they pointed out the office equipment I would need to use and introduced me to everyone we met. Thanks for a great article. I basically know how to answer the phones and take messages. Here is another article I wrote called The New Kid on the Block that you may find helpful.