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Love him or hate him, there’s no ignoring Donald Trump. Over the decades he’s made and lost major fortunes, known great success and abject failure, been hailed as a visionary and condemned as an ego-maniacal fool. His business empire, originally centering on Manhattan real estate, ...
A light bulb is turning on in boardrooms across America. The secret to running a productive company is to hire more women. Studies show that companies employing 30 percent female executives perform better than companies with only males at the helm.
The scarcity of women in boardrooms and executive suites has ...
In this flagging economy people with steady paychecks win our admiration faster than those with a fine wine cellar. Back when people were buying second homes and investing in hedge funds, the news drew an admiring crowd at cocktail parties. Those avenues to increasing net worth have vanished, replaced by the ...
If you sometimes feel like a slave to the ever-increasing demands of email, this story’s for you:
About this time last summer, Joan, a woman in a small Midwestern US city, lost her file clerk’s job. Widowed and with an infant child, she quickly ran through her savings while looking for ...
It sounds simple. But is it? Are you doing the right steps? There is a way to manage email using Microsoft Outlook Mail Folders, but it is not always obvious how to do it effectively.
Steps
Identify individuals or groups of people you regularly get email from.
Identify individuals or groups of people ...
A clutter-free desk can help you have a clutter-free mind. Follow these steps to see for yourself:
Go through everything sitting atop your desk, disposing of anything you don’t need. If your desk is cluttered with many pens, notepads, etc., whittle them down to a reasonable number. Are paper piles dotting ...
First in a series of interviews with productive people succeeding in the recession.
We've read the World Bank statistics that the global economy is contracting for the first time since World War II. Magazines are chock-full of cost-cutting strategies, which the public has taken to heart a little too eagerly.
Despite the trend ...
Two employees are laid off. They hold the exact same job title, functions, and salary. One struggles to find a new position, sending out dozens of resumes, making countless phone calls, and chasing umpteen leads. He attends mixers and job fairs, obtains career-counseling and resume consultations, and puts the word ...
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
For nearly 40 years, Stanford University’s Computer Systems Colloquium (CSC) has excited high-level academic/corporate tech circles in the United States by presenting speakers who embrace the future’s edge. Among their ranks have been at least two MacArthur Fellows, major corporate CEOs, inventors of devices and systems ...
If you pack your day with things to get done, you may psych yourself out before you start. Before you tackle the long To-Do List, you’ve given up and started watching Major League Baseball instead.
I regularly have a task list longer than a 10-year-old’s Christmas wish list. It haunts me ...
