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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

Success

It’s hard to imagine Jewel—full name Jewel Kilcher—wrote it when she was just 17, two years after leaving an unstable home environment, moving into her own cabin and then leaving Alaska to study operatic voice at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. After school, she moved to San Diego. They’ve been studied. It’s not exclusionary.”

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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

Success

Be aware of business environments and world factors that could influence or impact your decision, and make that a point of focus while building the strategy. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. In 2023, Google has a market cap of $1.7 billion.”

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IDEAS Ltd to Sponsor Design Guild Mark 2024, call for entries

Workplace Insight

Founded by Keith Lovelace in 2002, IDEAS is a leading authority in ergonomics and inclusive design for any commercial or public space including leisure, sports, hospitality, healthcare, and education. Design Guild Mark are pleased to announce that IDEAS Ltd will be sponsoring the ‘Furniture category’ for the 2024 Design Guild Mark Awards.

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How Eco-Friendly is your Furniture?

Eco-Office Gals

In the simplest possible terms, eco-friendly furniture is furniture that is created in a manner that has minimum negative impact on the environment. For example, where wood is used, it has to come from renewable sources, and any chemicals used in the process do not pollute or otherwise harm the environment.

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The Common Mistakes Futurists Make

Small Business Labs

This term was coined in the late 1990's and in the 2002-2005 time frame it was a very hot trend. And planning for the future is required in today's business environment. Overestimating the near term impact of new technologies. I often tell people trends are easy, timing is hard. Take the now hot Internet of Things.

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Green Gift Giving: Soda Stream Review & Giveaway!

Eco-Office Gals

Sodastream’s products are a great addition to the home or office making green steps: How Does SodaStream Help the Environment? The energy required to make water bottles in the US only, is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil (Container Recycling Institute, 2002). Also, an estimated 4.7

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Product/Program Promotion Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned Expert Interview

Stephanie LH Calahan

Despite applying heavy duty smarts to my choice of enterprise and industry, I neglected to include the most important factor: me - my strengths, priorities and preferred business environment. From 2002 - 2006 she co-owned and built the largest Long Island, NY. As a result, despite producing a beautiful product, I disliked my business.

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