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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. In a report by MBO partners , it was found that over 50 million people became independent workers—contract employees, freelancers, etc.—in It was time to go into business for himself. The great migration.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). A twist of fate post-retirement put his hard-earned savings at stake, leading him to rally to get a stretch of land for a new residential area in Delhi.

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Webiste Critique Special Report: Kidorable

Men With Pens

We do quite a few website critique reports here at Men with Pens. Speaking of covering everything head to toe… today is a special report website critique for Kidorable, an acclaimed kids’ clothing and accessories company dressing little kids up right. Your turn: Did we miss anything in our website critique?

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How One Top Workplace Keeps Innovation Flowing Through Communication

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That’s important with Baby Boomers retiring and government pensions bring retirement closer than it appears to many in the private sector. After we receive the survey report, we conduct focus group meetings of 10 to 15 employees from different departments. We tend to get better results when we mix up the groups.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The headlines report alarming labor shortages that we see in our own towns with stores that have shorter hours or that have closed entirely. One reason is, that for many leaders, a 2021 Zenger Folkman poll reports that most leaders don’t receive their first training in managing people until age 46. Since April, 2021, 11.5

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

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Sources report that Blackbeard deliberately ran his flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge , aground at Beautfort Inlet because his crew was so large it was becoming unmanageable. He spent his money as he earned it – on fine clothes, good food, and busty wenches. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Show no quarter.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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When I am putting together an editing report or when I am fact-checking – I often work on books that match subject areas I studied. Now I can just work the job I want and retire happy&# I’m like, you moron, education never stops! And in my first few jobs people would laugh if I suggested anything I studied was any use.

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