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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# He doesn’t ask, he just does. A burned out leader is useless.

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A Quick Guide to Avoiding Common Writing Errors

Harvard Business Review

Allot means “to parcel out.” ” The AP Stylebook (followed by Associated Press writers and many magazine, newspaper, and public relations writers) and the Chicago Manual of Style (followed by most people in the book publishing industry) are both available online for a fee, and that makes them searchable.

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How Work Saved One Woman’s Life

Harvard Business Review

The Return of Cultural Anonymity Inside the Angsty, Affirming World of Whisper New York Magazine You may not be familiar with Whisper, an app that gets more page views per month than LinkedIn, Wordpress, and Upworthy combined. But among the under-25 crowd, it’s enormously popular. Entrepreneurship'

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Visualizing the World of Tweets

Harvard Business Review

AWOT was also able to track tweets from Chinese users overcoming cyber-blocks, remote beacons in an otherwise notably blank parcel of Asia. Tweets were spotted in the Sahara Desert, high in the Arctic circle, and even in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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