Work Life

JUNE 22, 2025

Getting the hiring process right is one of the most critical and challenging aspects of building a startup. Early hires shape your company’s culture, operational efficiency, and future growth, yet many founders face this task without prior hiring experience or a clear sense of what their evolving business truly needs. Without being thoughtful about hiring —from crafting compelling job descriptions to setting consistent compensation and onboarding practices—startups risk bringing in team members

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Success

JUNE 22, 2025

The idea of growth is a positive concept, but discerning what it means when it comes to our mental state and how it impacts our lives can feel tricky. What is a growth mindset? How does it help us in our personal and professional lives? In what ways does a growth mindset help us be successful, and how do we go about developing one? Join us as we dive into what it looks like to have a growth mindset.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 22, 2025

A new study of a large Turkish call centre provides fresh evidence that working from home can improve productivity and workforce diversity — though in-person onboarding remains crucial to long-term success. The research, conducted by economists from King’s College London, Stanford, the Paris School of Economics and the EBRD, examines Tempo BPO, a Turkish business process outsourcing company that moved fully remote in 2020.

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Work Life

JUNE 22, 2025

What’s the quickest way to get attention on LinkedIn ? Some users think they’ve cracked the code by flaunting elite schools and prestigious firms at the very top of their profile where job titles typically go. Alums from the likes of consulting giant McKinsey, Harvard Business School, and investment bank Goldman Sachs are now shouting about their networks from the digital rooftops.

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Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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JUNE 22, 2025

Women entrepreneurs are on the rise, leading startups that innovate across tech, wellness, education, social impact sectors and more. According to female entrepreneurship statistics at the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor , women’s startup activity rates rose from an average of 6.1% between 2001 and 2005 to 10.4% from 2021 to 2023. Wells Fargo’s 2024 Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report indicates that the number of women-owned businesses increased at almost double the rate of their male counte

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Work Life

JUNE 22, 2025

Like all awkward workplace conversations, a compassionate and direct approach is best. Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column hosted by deputy editor Kathleen Davis.

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JUNE 22, 2025

Mike Todasco is a former Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal and current Visiting Fellow at San Diego State University. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Mike talks about the AI landscape, and how executive assistants can leverage AI to enhance their role, boost efficiency, and future-proof their careers. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Leadership is taking people to a place they would not have gone to without you.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 22, 2025

The Datacloud Global Congress took place during the first week of June, handily nestled between BCO Milan and London Tech week where the government announced an £86 billion boost to science and tech, with the intention of propelling Britain to world-leading status for research and innovation. These are three events with very different content, yet are also intrinsically linked for progressive and high performance societies and organisations.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 22, 2025

The thing with OP #1 is that as soon as the client has feedback you’re cooked. If you’re not using at least a paid AI gen product be ready for it to hallucinate changes you never asked for (extra people, applying changes to other things besides the one thing you asked for, etc). You will not be able to easily swap out products, update text, or produce different image ratios, resolutions and formats.

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Work Life

JUNE 22, 2025

What’s the big idea? In the book Apocalypse , the term itself is understood as a rapid, collective loss that fundamentally changes a society’s way of life and sense of identity. Viewed as an ending of existence as we know it, rather than an end of all existence period , helps reframe such terrifying times of upheaval as our greatest opportunities for growth and improvement.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Hyaline. This was my feeling, but I didn’t want to comment because I was once a defense attorney and have *feelings* about prosecutors. What the office’s SOP? Living on the east cost and later on the west coast, my assumption based on my experience was that prosecutors had wide discretion. In a job with discretion that can also cause huge consequences for the accused/convicted – it feels like this is what *just* what happens, and you should either have a departmenta

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Ellis Bell. I’d understand “smart casual” as “business casual” and it doesn’t sounds like jeans or sneakers would be ok. Best to ask someone who has been before about specifics, or whoever is organising the event. If that’s not possible, then I suggest you take it down 1 step only from your daily dress code – sounds like at your school it would be better to be slightly more formal than most folk rather than too casual.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Traveler. They’re usually called an i-Site :-) sadly loads of them are closing or reducing hours and services because direct online booking has smashed their revenue streams and local councils can’t afford to prop them up to the same level.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to ElastiGirl. I bawled in the cinema watching In The Heights.

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Shiny Penny. It does have a name! Semantic satiation.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Ask a Manager. Ah, thanks for the answer! I’d personally love to have them back but you’re right that the majority wasn’t using them so IDK how much sense it would make for you to put any more time and effort into it. If you ever find a way to re-integrate them seamlessly, I’d be all for it, though!

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to New Jack Karyn. I’d say “booking way in advance” falls squarely under my “there are any number of reasons why she really had to leave on that specific date” point.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Goldfeesh. Owls are amazing! I remember walking home from school once when I was 10, and getting this really unpleasant feeling of being stared at when I walked down an unpaved country road. Nobody else in sight, until I looked a bit higher and saw a magnificent owl with orange eyes sitting on a telephone pole. The pole was right in the bend of the road and the owl kept looking at me until I went round the next bend.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to RoadLessTraveler. Is it your particular wish to grow from seed? I haven’t got the setup to do seed trays and propagaters etc indoors then plant out so I got small plants from the garden centre, those little 3-4 inch pots, popped them in the bed with some potting compost and watered diligently, and they’ve all been fine. Parsley and dill are annuals so have to get them new the following year but perennial herbs have done so well – often the second year, mind you (the sorrel was

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Jackalope. Just started The Husbands by Holly Gramazio and am loving it!

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Cosmic Crisp. If you’re after queer book recommendations check out Georgia Marie on YouTube, it’s her niche! And I love Red, White and Royal Blue!

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Emily Byrd Starr. Hadestown!

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Kay. Assuming you’re in the U.S., the website for the U.S. embassy in that country (if there is one) might have a list of lawyers. The embassy doesn’t endorse anyone but it might be a place to start. Also, if it’s not a scam, the person contacting you would likely have their own estate lawyer. I don’t know about all countries, but here I would expect to receive an official notification through the mail and have the right to see a copy of the will.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Fluff. Also being a monotreme, baby echidnas are also called puggles.

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JUNE 22, 2025

In reply to Almost Academic. Not a root canal, but I had bariatric surgery in November, and one of the first solid foods I ate was homemade meatballs with mashed potatoes. I used instant mashed potatoes, but really upped the flavor by making them with chicken broth instead of water.

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