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Stop Emphasizing the Quality of Your Work and Do This Instead

By Ben Drake In the vast majority of cases, your quality doesn’t matter. Yup, that’s right. Why? Because no one cares about the quality of your work; people care about the quality of their own work.This does not apply to the unconditional … Continue reading

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Final Power Play: 5 Winning Leadership Strategies of Olivia Pope

By Shaun Spearmon For millions of faithful fans, Thursdays at 10 p.m. just won’t be the same. With the conclusion of the second season of Scandal, we will have to survive 6 months, void of our weekly dose of the lies, … Continue reading

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Meet the new pot entrepreneurs

By Jose Pagliery Washington State’s budding marijuana industry has drawn entrepreneurs from all careers and backgrounds. The professional investors Entrepreneur: Brendan Kennedy and Michael Blue Background: Finance, bank executive Weed-related job: Private equity To those in Washington, these two are … Continue reading

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What will the online sales tax bill mean for you?

By Anick Jesdanun Congress is considering legislation that would give states the ability to require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes. If the measure passes, consumers would lose a loophole that has resulted in years of tax-free online shopping. Out-of-state … Continue reading

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Box Office: Iron Man 3 Has Second-Highest Opening Ever

By Liz Raftery Iron Man 3 opened with a whopping $175.3 million at the box office this weekend, making it the second-highest opening of all time (behind 2012’s The Avengers) and setting a high standard for the rest of this … Continue reading

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US faces gaps in protecting human rights in business activities – UN experts

Despite progress and innovation in key sectors of the United States’ economy, too many loopholes remain to adequately protect human rights from adverse business practices, a group of United Nations independent experts today warned. While the US Government has committed … Continue reading

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How Public Policy Built The Racial Wealth Divide

By Seth Freed Wessler The racial wealth gap never ceases to amaze. Black and Latino families hold pennies of accumulated assets compared to every dollar of the average white family’s investments, retirement savings and home equity. Wealth matters a lot. … Continue reading

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The Two Most Important Words

By Robert A. Eckert When I arrived at Mattel, the company was losing almost a million dollars a day, the bonus pool was empty, and equity awards were underwater. I believed that those challenges were surmountable. On my first day, … Continue reading

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Sneak peek: Tyler Perry’s new scripted series for Oprah Winfrey Network

Fantastic!

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