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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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I also know I learned I was Black in first grade. And that was the day I learned what Blackness meant. Supporting all women means understanding the ways that the unique interplay of race, gender, sexuality, class, disability and immigration status affects their experience at work. Copyright © 2022 by Y-Vonne Hutchinson.

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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

One of the lessons I learned early on was that it's easy to be busy and think you are being productive. I learned my lesson really quickly. I learned that as a business owner my focus has to be on my customers and sales, not busy work and errands. Thanks to Stephanie Shalofsky of The Organizing Zone. Nights Out.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

You put hours of effort and study into learning a certain subject inside and out. You probably can’t remember when you last put the knowledge you learned in university to work in your everyday business affairs. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. I didn’t pay attention to what I’d learned.

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What's Under the Hood of Your Web Copy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

There’s a lot more to writing web copy than that – and you’ll learn it from cars. Want to learn how to write better copy? I learned the lesson of writing in the appropriate voice many years ago, when I wrote my first newsletter for a client. It’s just like a writer taking English class for the first time.

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Minimum Survival Kit

Brilliantly Better

For 6 months, I woke up at 5 AM each morning (except during the 6 nights of Romanian Revolution , when I didn’t sleep at all), I practiced fight techniques and learned tremendously. When it was cold, it was really cold, we had to sleep with clothes on and didn’t have any other way to get warm. On the contrary. Well, I dont.

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

But what I tell people are four scenes from the last six months that sum up what I’ve learned better than I can spell it out: Exhibit A: The High Style The man I was listening to spoke with a strong British accent. Live and learn. Try telling someone who gives stock market advice to just treat blogging like a game and have a good time.

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Taylor's a Feminist – But So Is James | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

But if it means being able to send your kids to a better school, to not have to worry when they grow out of their clothes, to buy them the Christmas present they want instead of the one you can afford, many of you would take the job anyway. It’s not right, or noble, or fair. It made me angry. It still does. Powered by frugal

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