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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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These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression. Intersectionality refers to the ways in which those holding multiple marginalized identities can experience compounding or entirely unique forms of marginalization.

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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. Stories Are Living Things. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

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Charles Johnson, author of the 1724 book, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates , described Teach as “such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” He spent his money as he earned it – on fine clothes, good food, and busty wenches.

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Entrepreneurship live and kicking! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in London. But then my business education does not limit me to just ticking boxes on a form (-forgive me for this little side dig, but it had to be done!). What is Small Business Infrastructure? The event was held in the St.

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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. 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. Heaps of them. Because they’re Good Ones.

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