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Negative Online Reviews

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Instead, be constructive and find a solution. ABOUT LOCALITY: Founded in 2011, Locality ( [link] ) is a service that businesses can use to create an online profile and publish their information for free. MISTAKE 3: BEING TOO PASSIVE Ask your loyal followers to review you online. To sign up, visit www.locality.com/merchants. .

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Structural Economic Shift and Unemployment

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Beginning on January 1, 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will group people by the actual number of weeks of unemployment, up to five years. Source: The New Yorker, January 3, 2011. Jobs have been lost and hiring is slow almost across the board.

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Is Your Unemployed Skill Obsolete?

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Construction managers may be having a hard time now, but they will eventually be in demand again. Source: The New York Times, June 19, 2011. Switching to a new career is a drastic step. Before you pursue it, ask yourself: Is your skill becoming obsolete, or is it just in a cyclical funk?

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Biologism: Explaining the Mind

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A brain in good working order is, of course, a necessary condition of every aspect of human consciousness, from basic perception to the most complex constructed sense of self. Source: The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2011. Many aspects of everyday human consciousness elude neural reduction. Gazzaniga: Who's in Charge?:

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A Drive for Excellence

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This led to the construction of resort hotels, and the growth of Leland as a summer resort. At the turn of the century, GM's financial leadership had succeeded in maximizing profits while producing noncompetitive consumer products.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

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The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, September 19, 2011 and Forbes, September 26, 2011. Canada has offered to lend Michigan up to $550 million to build connecting roads. This is Canada's No.

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How Do People Perceive You?

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He added that “there is the challenge to be authentic and faithful, and not give in to the illusion of constructing an artificial public profile for oneself.”. Sources: "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell and The New York Times, September 11, 2011.

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