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The best advice in business: 40 execs reveal their secrets to success
We’ve gathered wisdom from those who have rocketed up the corporate ladder and helped others climb with them. Here, some valuable lessons on how to lead well, achieve more, and have fun doing it.
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How to (Professionally) Miss a Deadline
It happens to the best of us. Maybe accounting didn’t get you the numbers on time. Maybe the design work you thought would take you four hours is taking more like 14. Maybe Taco...
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Feel Like an Imposter at Work? You’re Not Alone!
The good news about imposter syndrome is it's entirely in your head. The bad news? It could be interfering with your career. Here's how to overcome it.
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Highly educated, unemployed and falling behind
In the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of jobs these days, even an advanced degree can't protect some Americans from tumbling down the economic ladder.
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What Your 'About Us' Page Is Missing
Just about every business website has an
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Alaska Reporter Shows How Not to Quit a Job - NBC News.com
Some people just give their two weeks' notice when they quit their job. Others give a notice that will be remembered for much longer than two weeks. An Ancho...
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The Much-Maligned Business Plan (and Why You Need One) | Inc.com
Creating a business plan and digging into your numbers can avert a business-threatening shortfall. But the even more exciting thing is that it can also propel you to look for opportunities to grow your company.
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5 Rules For Surviving Cubicle Life
How to make cubicle life better for everyone: no one envisions a cubicle as the holy grail of places they’d like to spend their waking hours. While you can love your job to the moon and back (well, maybe just to the moon), sometimes the cubicle life can get down right intrusive.
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People who doodled were able to remember 29% more information than nondoodlers, a study found
Recent research in neuroscience, psychology and design shows that doodling can help people stay focused, grasp new concepts and retain information.
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8 Reasons Why Work Is Sometimes Just Like High School
It's funny, isn’t it? We grow up, leave high school, go onto college, and then join the ranks of other working professionals, but do some ever really graduate emotionally? After a few years in the real world, it becomes clear that the office where you spend your days is just like the educational institution where you spent your teenage years.
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The Strong Link Between Your Self Image and Business Success.
The vast majority of business people focus on tactics to be successful - strategy, marketing, sales and systems. Yet after doing this religiously for ten years still often complain that they have not achieved what they had hoped. Is there something more t
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Can't Stand Meetings? Try Taking Away The Chairs
Those who stood at meetings said they felt their colleagues were more open to their ideas, less territorial, and overall, did better collaborative work, researchers found.
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Ask The Experts: How Can I Deal With Having 3 Demanding Bosses?
One demanding boss is enough. Three is a nightmare. An overwhelmed assistant writes in for help managing her managers.
