Life Skills Taking Charge of Your Growth Book Review
A self help guide by Richard J Leider promotes growth through risk, purpose, and a life map. It outlines a strategy to assess time values vitality purpose career spirituality health talents relationships and money, then make commitments to improve unsatisfying life aspects.
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Richard J. Leider
Pfeiffer
Leider
Dress down The decade's titans of industry fashion
Figures like Bill Gates David Geffen and Norman Brinker are shifting away from traditional suits as technology and attitudes reshape workwear Casual Fridays evolve toward broader casual styles with updated options including dress slacks shirts blazers and textured fabrics among suit separates and knitwear choices From wire reports
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Bill Gates
David Geffen
Norman Brinker
America
Lunch hour? What lunch hour? On the go meals rule
In Astonia and Gaston, workers like J R Bass and Lisa Bradley face tight or unused lunch breaks. Bass, a tow truck operator for Battery Heaven, eats on the road or not at all while Bradley, an emergency room supervisor at Gaston Memorial, carves out 35 minutes but often sacrifices her own meal to ensure others eat. Debbie Cox and Leigh Ann Grissom, busy mothers, use longer breaks to catch up at home and in nearby offices.
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Gaston
Lisa Bradley
Gaston Memorial Hospital
Ms. Bradley
Debbie Cox
Leigh Ann Grissom
Ms. Cox
Joel D. Conner
Cox Road
Reward ideas with cash for saving millions in business
June 1995 Reader's Digest notes more than 6,000 U S companies run employee suggestion programs. In 1993 awards to suggesters totaled 165 million while ideas saved members over 2 billion dollars. Army chief W O Wesley Wolf earned 5000 for a mobile kitchen concept that fed 500 000 ham burgers and 200 000 hot dogs daily at peak.
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Gus” Pagonis
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Pagonis
Home entertaining abroad and workplace ethics
A reader asks if a single woman should host foreign business visitors at her condo for a home cooked dinner. The reply advises against intimate hosting, suggests public venues, or co hosting with a colleague to avoid any misinterpretation across cultures.
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