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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. But one day everything changed. I snapped,” Fanning says. “I

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Open competition launched to find design team for new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

Workplace Insight

The total budget of the project is around €105 million, with construction costs of the museum not to exceed €70 million (price level Sept 2023). Spaces for events, conferences, workshops, a library and a water-front café-restaurant are also a key requirement of the brief. Construction is timetabled to complete by 2030.

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Company Perks and Showing Appreciation

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Employee discounts to local businesses and the performing arts -Executive retreat or seminar based on Jim Loehr’s The Power of Full Engagement or The Power of Story -A team of volunteers to promote a fun culture at the office with a nominal budget allocated by the company for game nights, Halloween costume contest prizes, talent shows, etc. -On

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

They have a budget. Imagine if your library organized its books that way. Their “library&# is built. We just have to factor in a superannuation plan when we write up our business plans and budgets. Most bloggers are cheap-asses. Businesspeople understand investment, as opposed to cost. No way, dude.

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