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How You Relate to Others - Life-Changing Skills

Building Personal Strength

I took a month-long skills course and read Dr. Thomas Gordon''s now-classic book, P.E.T. which stands for "Parent Effectiveness Training." They need the love and wisdom parents can give, but during their long, slow journey towards adulthood, a still-developing teenager will be put off, even alienated by this kind of treatment.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. Many of the clients I worked with had had developed the idea for years, but they were reluctant to quit their Jobs, or were afraid of failing.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. According to an analysis by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, in 2014 nearly one-third of new H-1B visas went to 13 of these so-called “outsourcers.”