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Laughing all the Way to Work

What did I get myself into was a question I wondered a lot in the beginning, but I kept on putting in lots and lots of extra hours to learn my new job. So I worked hard in those early months learning everything I could about minute-taking, boards, governance and everything else in between. And travel he did.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. Fortunately, they were able to waive it and we only lost our $500 deposit. It is always worth asking.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

Not only because I coded every single line of it, but because this app is the tangible result of more than 3 years of testing, learning and writing about personal productivity. In my experience, more than 60% of development time is spent on user interface. Third: I am obsessed with learning new things. Can be tricky at times.

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What to Do When Your Client is Boring | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

An in-person interview doesn’t come with a copy-and-paste option, but it definitely helps get someone out of their drone-like business brain. It didn’t really work then and it definitely doesn’t work in business now. How else will they ever learn that boring can lose them the people they work with? Just be you.

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