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Fierce Business with Susan Scott
PBA Symposium's keynote speaker Susan Scott continues to encourage managers to tackle those fierce conversations, while she takes on the business world's worst "best" practices. Since 2002, Susan Scott's best-seller Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time, has taught thousands of business leaders how to ignite productive dialogue that interrogates reality, provokes learning, resolves tough challenges and enriches relationships. salontoday.com |
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8 Tips That Can Change Your Life
Tim Sanders is the former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo! and the best-selling author of Saving the World at Work. He offers his tips for turning negative thinking into positive thinking. "I learned a lot from my grandmother, who lived through the Great Depression," Sanders said. "One of her favorite expressions was, 'Attitude is everything so pick a good one.'"Sanders offers eight tips that could help you change your attitude and change your life. behindthechair.com |
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Creating a Culture of Success
As a salon owner, your own talent, qualifications and skills will only get you so far in business. To really succeed you need to have a team that shares common goals and beliefs, that's what I call culture. So where and how do you start and what are the main areas to focus on if you are going to develop and nurture that winning salon culture? hairdesigner.tv |
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IWhy Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller Than Men-Owned Ones?
The phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses has made headlines for three decades—women consistently have been launching new enterprises at twice the rate of men, and their growth rates of employment and revenue have outpaced the economy. So, it is dismaying to see that, despite all this progress, on average, women-owned business are still small compared with businesses owned by men. And while the gap has narrowed, as of 2008—the latest year for which numbers are available—the average revenues of majority women-owned businesses were still only 27% of the average of majority men-owned businesses. WallStreetJournal.com |
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Fashion Color Report for Fall 2010
What colors are going to be hot this season? Designers continue to exhibit a degree of caution for fall 2010, yet offer a palette of beauty and excitement with a blending of colors, some with similar undertones, in surprising and intriguing combinations. Inspired by the ongoing phenomenon of film animation, vivid colors are often juxtaposed in inventive ways, creating arresting and extraordinary color combinations. Pantone offers its seasonal color trend report as a free download. Pantone.com |
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