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Michael Jai White on Ditching Your Hollywood Heroes and Other Lessons from a Career in Entertainment

Success

Michael Jai White has lived many lives before getting his shot on the big screen. Born in Brooklyn, New York, raised in Bridgeport and New Haven, Connecticut, Jai White was on his own at 14. He acted as a hobby, but became a teacher. He was about to train as a police officer when he landed a lead role in a Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Interesting Study on Content Creators

Small Business Labs

the Tilt , a content marketing site, recently released The Unconventionals , a survey and study of online content entrepreneurs. They describe content creators as: "Content entrepreneurs (CEs) make money by turning valuable and interesting content into revenue streams. Some are solopreneurs making a comfortable income based on sharing their unique expertise with a niche audience.

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Moxie Tip #5: Communicate Quickly

Virtual Moxie

This week, create a standard around over communicating, and communicating quickly. What do you think is a reasonable expectation for clients to have of you? What would you want to be able to expect from others? Be sure to offer no less than that. The post Moxie Tip #5: Communicate Quickly appeared first on AssistU.

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Exploring Time Management Tools & Tech

Eat Your Career

When it comes to time management tools and technology, you have choices…A LOT of choices! In fact, it can be overwhelming to consider the vast array of options available. And once you’ve made a decision, there’s more work to do! Setting up and learning how to use a new tool or software takes time (which is already in short supply). What if you don’t like it?

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How to make diversity, equity and inclusion a reality at work — not just a mission statement

Ideas.Ted

This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. What leaders do matters far more than what they say. Creating workplaces that work for everyone is about far more than public displays on social media, diversity recruiting initiatives and one-and-done anti-bias and anti-harassment training.

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5 Surprising Reasons to Hire a Digital Marketing Virtual Team

Jennie Lyon

When most people contact me for a free consultation, they usually ask about the usual digital marketing services: copywriting, social media, and website development. And that’s great! That’s my bread and butter. Writing blogs, creating social media posts, and building beautiful websites are three cornerstones of a comprehensive digital marketing strategy.

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Healthy And Unhealthy Routines

Brilliantly Better

You know how fond I am of personal rituals. I find them fundamental for a balanced state. But just because it’s a ritual, and just because it’s personal, this doesn’t automatically makes it healthy. There are healthy and unhealthy routines, and since they are both, you know, routines, they can both be consumed and perceived. Read more.

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Instead of Asking ‘Why,’ Ask ‘Why Not’

Success

What comes to mind when you think of the word legacy? As a child, I lived in British Columbia, Canada. I watched my father grow a honey business. And then a granola business with my uncle. I watched them sell that business to Kellogg’s in the late ’70s for a big profit. My father introduced me to personal development by handing me a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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The Enneagram at Work: Which Number Are You?

Success

Personality tests are comforting because they give us instant gratification, telling us if we’re extroverted or introverted, logical or creative. Although these quick-results quizzes tell us how we behave, almost all fail to explain why we behave the way we do. That’s why many business leaders are turning to the Enneagram, a personality tool with ancient roots, to learn more about their employees and how to best equip them for success.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Glenn and Mindy Stearns: Building a Legacy of Kindness

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They call themselves Glenndy. In joint interviews and on their own podcast they interrupt each other, finish each other’s thoughts, tease each other, and riff on each other’s comments. It’s entertaining to listen to entrepreneurs Glenn and Mindy Stearns because you never know what’s going to come out of this married couple’s mouths next. It could be valuable wisdom for entrepreneurs, the type they earned by spending decades in the trenches, most recently as founders of Kind Lending.

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