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Two Entrepreneurs Share Advice on Leaving a Corporate Role and Becoming Self-Employed

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Communications professional Levinson spent her early career at various companies and agencies. In 2019 she had a child, which changed her perspective. “I During the pandemic, Levinson’s agency went through a restructuring, and her role was eliminated. I hired an accounting firm to handle my books and finances.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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The co-founder and CEO of SparkToro , who previously co-founded Moz, gives consultants an edge over agencies and full-time employees in a recent blog post. The company hired four agencies and five consultants in its first two years. Of course, managing a freelancer is not the same as managing a full-time employee or agency.

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AI Probably Won’t Take Your Job In 2024

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When we asked in 2019, 81% of CIOs told us that they would have [AI] by now. The survey included professionals working in the legal, tax & accounting, global trade, risk management, and compliance fields employed at government agencies and corporate in-house departments.

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The Art of Persuasion: 4 Tips to Master Influence

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Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Mekanism , an advertising agency that blends soul and science to drive results. In 2019, he released his Wall Street Journal best-seller, The Soulful Art of Persuasion: The 11 Habits That Will Make Anyone a Master Influencer. Harris learned this lesson after building his first company by himself.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Ze Frank—besides everything we’ve ever learned about killer surfing snails and more than we ever wanted to know about lizard tongues—it’s that when it comes to career changes , there’s no such thing as too much. But by 2019, he says, “I was much more interested in the science part.”

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The Four Horsemen of the Mandated Return to Office

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That includes top-level executives: Ian Goodfellow, who led machine learning at Apple, quit in protest over Apple’s mandated return to office of three days a week. . Or consider a National Bureau of Economic Research paper about a study at Trip.com, one of the largest travel agencies in the world.

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The Secrets Behind Portugal’s Booming Coworking Industry

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The most rapid expansion in the number of coworking spaces occurred mainly in 2018/2019 (and at the start of the pandemic). Simone Franke (Founder & CEO, Pappus Agency): Portuguese coworking is developing in a unique direction. We are constantly learning how to adapt and cope with rapid changes in the world. .