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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

Success

My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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Podcast 110: What’s in your cache?

Clutter Coach

Surprisingly, random eviction works, mainly because managing your cache of stuff at all, whether on your computer or in your closet, is better than not doing it. You keep your stapler on the desk, but the box of staples is in the cabinet. There are several methods of doing that. That applies to supplies also.

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We’re facing famine, extinction, natural disasters: 3 takeaways from the new IPCC report

Ideas.Ted

Even if we manage to stop the planet warming beyond 1.5? Adaptation, such as through sustainable building development, can help humanity manage the increasing risks. Even if we manage to reduce global emissions and meet the Paris Agreement target of only temporarily exceeding 1.5? In particular, warming above 2?

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What happened to customer service at Sears?

Service Untitled

According to online surveys, over 80 percent of customers now give Sears poor customer service grades citing reasons of inept management, unreliable products, poor customer service, and a profound lack of employee training. After all Craftsman tools have always been a male Christmas present staple; for all those weekend home chores.

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When the chairs took over the world and what it all meant

Workplace Insight

Of all the things we buy, with the exception of our clothes, furniture is the most intimate, the one item we spend most time in contact with. That is why the transformation of the office furniture industry over the past thirty or so years tells us so much about changing technology, legislation, management styles and social norms.

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