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July 7, 2016
Found: The Perfect Work-Life Bags For Women
Stop carrying two bags to work: These handbags are both beautiful and functional. And they're only available from startups.
Luciana Baigún, a 32-year-old tech executive, spends her days jetting between her company's offices in San Francisco and New York, with interludes working remotely from coffee shops in Buenos Aires, India, and London. On any given day, she's rushing from her casual office to a formal client meeting to yoga class and to cocktails with friends—always with her laptop in tow. For years now, she's been on a quest to find a handbag that allows her to go seamlessly from one event to another, but so far, the perfect bag has eluded her. "I usually have a nice work bag on one arm and an overstuffed canvas bag in the other," she says. "It's a bit of a hassle, to be honest."
Lessons In Making A Good First Impression From The Best Interns Ever
Years later, employers still talk about them. Here's how the best interns make everyone want to help their careers flourish.
A summer internship is a small window to make a good impression. The interns who knock it out of the park can provide valuable examples for anyone who wants to make a good impression in a new job.
How To Manage A Negative Employee
Are you dealing with a "Debbie downer" on your team? Here are six ways to cope.
No matter how carefully you pick the members on your team, you may still end up with a negative employee. These workers don't necessarily fall into the category of "toxic," but they're just kind of a drag with their cynical, pessimistic worldview.
Expert Tips To Make Meetings Faster And More Focused
Meetings can be a huge time suck, so we turned to the pros for their advice on how to make them more productive.
If you think you have a lot of meetings today, you're in good company. One Harvard Business School professor estimates that there will be 11 million meetings taking place today in the United States. The unproductive ones (an estimated third) can cost a company an astounding amount of money. In a 2014 study of time usage, Bain & Company found that just one meeting of mid-level managers per week could cost an organization as much as $15 million per year.
6 Steps To Rejoining The Workforce After A Long-Term Leave
You've been out of the workforce for years, and now you're ready to come back. Here's how to make a smooth transition.
From time to time, many people need to take an extended break from the workforce. Whether you left for caretaking responsibilities, a long-term illness, or other reasons, breaking back in can seem overwhelming. It can be tough to figure out an entry point, let alone how to attract the attention of a prospective employer, get the job, and hit the ground running.
The 5 Hardest Lessons I Learned Going From Freelancer To Startup Founder
John Rampton went from freelancer to entrepreneur and back again before founding Due. Here's what the experience taught him.
In a way, freelancers and startup founders are pretty similar: They both follow their passions, answer only to themselves, and want to enjoy a flexible lifestyle. But there often comes a point when freelancing isn't enough. It's a great career choice for many people, but before long plenty others begin to wonder how to turn their individual skill sets and their biggest ideas into a full-fledged business.
These Digital Nomads Share 10 Ways They Work Productively From Anywhere
Here's how to turn airport terminals, foreign coffee shops, and Airbnbs into your new office.
Staying productive is a tough challenge for anyone, even if you work from the same space every day. But what if you're jumping workspaces every week? Every day? Every couple hours? Digital nomads and remote workers have a very unique productivity puzzle to figure out.
How I've Trained Myself To Avoid Making Excuses
Before you can take full ownership of your work, you need to see things as they really are, and understand how they got that way.
I'll never forget a tense conversation I had with my leadership team about the launch of a key tech product. We were discussing why we weren't getting broad adoption among our users. One of my team members in the company, which operates in the home-improvement sector, offered this explanation: "This industry is just slow to adopt new technologies."
How To Advance Your Career While You're Stuck Doing Grunt Work
Here's what it takes to make the most of entry-level drudgery and limit your time doing it.
Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the clichéd fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research—even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them.
July 6, 2016
Lowe's Tangos With Google To Help You Remodel Your Home In Augmented Reality
The chain is launching a smartphone app that turns science fiction into reality.
Lowe's may not be where most people would expect to find a cutting-edge augmented reality app.
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