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25 Holiday Gift Ideas That Support Minority-Owned Businesses

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Whether your loved one works from home or is an at-home mixologist, here are 25 gifts they’ll love that also support minority-owned businesses. These items will spice up your life and put the fun back into making your own meals at home. Buying a gift for someone who works from home ? To bring the joy back to cooking.

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Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

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Having grit doesn’t mean never giving up; it means not giving up on our long-term goals. And sometimes the best way to achieve our long-term goals may be to give up on unproductive short-term goals. Recognizing how our goals line up can help us know when to quit and when to persist. Giving up can feel like failure.

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The First Thing to Do After a Job Interview

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Even though you may have more phone or Zoom interviews during your current job search because of the pandemic, the basics of job searching remain the same: do your homework on an employer so you're prepared for an interview; dress appropriately; ask questions -- and always, always, always send a thank-you note. Recap the highlights.

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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Growing up, Kate Stice Stewart would shop for a special Christmas gift for her mother. She, her brothers and their father would nestle it—or a clue about it—in a small needlepoint stocking on the tree, and it would be the last gift opened. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. So it had to be perfect.

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The Success Interview: Magdalena Ye?il on Inclusivity, Female Leadership and Finding Male Allies in the Workplace

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Born and raised in Istanbul, she says growing up as a Christian kid in a Muslim country was great training for navigating Silicon Valley as a woman: “I learned how to adjust to being other.” CM: You ended up at Stanford and switched paths several times, ultimately landing on electrical engineering. You cannot give up.

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The Greatest Gift to Give Workers This Year

On The Job

There’s no doubt that giving people raises can up their game, and I’m all for it. But I’m convinced that if you truly want people to elevate their performance, you first have to build up their pride. I've interviewed many experts over the years, and the one thing they can agree on is that everyone's job adds value.

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Thinking Outside the Box: How Entrepreneur Danny Taing Is Bringing Japan to Your Door

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Now, the living rooms Taing shares with his husband in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and New York City are for sitting or being interviewed for stories at 1 a.m.—since First there was a consumer-to-consumer marketplace similar to Craigslist, then an online tutoring company, then a career coaching and interview prep platform. “By

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