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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. Structural racism refers to the system of policies, cultural practices, institutions and ideologies that work together to create and reinforce racism. Antiracism.

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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Sheena Meade, CEO of The Clean Slate Initiative Photo courtesy of The Clean Slate Initiative Sheena Meade “leads a national bipartisan organization to advance policy that automatically clears all eligible arrest and conviction records across the US,” according to CSI’s website.

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How to Get Organized Using Lists

Ian's Messy Desk

Basic personal numbers (self and family members) – drivers license, social security, insurance policies, Whatever you may need for yourself and others when filling out forms. Anniversary. Personal information. Account information. Bills to pay. Communication. Context-based. Someday/Maybe. Quotations. Blog content. Entertainment.

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Toxic! How to End Workplace Bullying Now by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

Targets and witnesses to workplace bullying call them unhinged psychopaths, monsters, and devils wearing designer clothes. The question becomes whether a company truly has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying that has teeth in it. Clearly, the bullies are out of touch with how people are really responding to them.

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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

In this context, I found it difficult to set and implement a cancellation policy. By their mere existence, boundaries such as a cancellation policy set the foundation for mutual respect between the client and consultant. I placed the cancellation policy in my contract right above my guarantee. This is a cardinal mistake!

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

Men With Pens

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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The 6 Stages Of A Failure

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Denial is a form of rejecting reality. Do clothes make a person? Mazzola March 13, 2010 at 12:40 am Honesty is always the best policy! Accepting you did something that hurt somebody (most of the time, it’s you who is hurt, that’s true). Acceptance makes things manageable again. David David Rogers´s last blog.

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