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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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Of course, after we started working together, when I spoke to the other Black and Brown employees who worked at these companies about their experiences, they had no problem saying the word. These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can be overt or subtle. Intersectionality.

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Why You Should Invite Your Customers to a Campfire Storytelling Session

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Of course, you probably don’t want to make up a story out of whole cloth—“Our natural spring water comes from the exact center of the earth, delivered in clay vessels by naked nymphs”—but you need to place your reader, your customer, in the dramatic arc of your tale. For instance, has your business overcome great challenges?

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Entrepreneurship live and kicking! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Yesterday I had a very special experience in as much that I was kindly asked – thanks to Phyllis Mercer – to be a guest judge at the Year 2 BTEC National Business Course for their business plans. Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in London.

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Why Less Is More

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Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. And every form of raw energy is a dangerous thing to play with. Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. Particularly helpful when I go clothes shopping !

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Drive-By Shooting Special: Melani Ward | Men With Pens

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Now James stood in the doorway, the mud spit up by the old bike’s back tire forming grey-brown clumps on his white t-shirt. With one eye on the building, he straightened out his clothes, flicking the dried mud off his shirt. “Clothes?&# “Not even close,&# Kelly replied, and purposefully headed away.

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Are You Hoarding Ideas?

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I bet that over the past months or even years, you’ve collected a ton of half-formed ideas. Maybe not clothing or gadgets, but you hoard ideas. The courses you won’t put together. Think about the files on your computer, the notes you’ve written to yourself, the cheat sheet full of partially formed stuff you’ll do.

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Minimum Survival Kit

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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. Exciting, if you look at it form the outside, frightening if you have to do it. The Design of Sources of Insight Reply 2 dragos June 28, 2010 at 9:05 am Of course, it’s all about nuts. On the contrary.

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