Success
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
If you’re a freelancer, you must handle everything from accounting and marketing to customer service and project management. That’s why it’s important to assemble a mix of tools to help you run your freelance business successfully. Good tools can significantly streamline the administrative side of your freelance business and manage your workload, allowing you to focus more on your craft and client work.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
In an era when global connectivity is crucial for business operations, travel disruptions have surged, affecting countless professionals. Our research indicates that the overwhelming majority of global business travelers—nearly 9 out of 10—have faced significant challenges in the past year due to unexpected flight delays, cancellations, or the need to reroute their journeys.
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Success
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Three story pitches I’d been meaning to send but hadn’t gotten around to. One half-finished essay. A barely started novel. A nonfiction book proposal I’d outlined but never completed. When I looked at the pile of unfinished projects strewn across my desk late last year, I realized I’d fallen into a familiar trap: I’d stopped finishing. As a freelance journalist and author whose success and income depend on my ability to complete and send out projects, this was not good news.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
When you were a teenager, did you ever do anything you later regretted? Perhaps it was something so outrageous you later couldn’t begin to explain your own behavior. Or maybe it was something so embarrassing you still don’t want anyone else to know it ever happened. If you’re a human being, the answer is undoubtedly, yes. And if you found yourself in a similar situation now, is there any chance you would make the same mistake again?
Go Burrows
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Kelly Munoz has 15+ years of experience supporting C-level executives in NYC. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Kelly talks about networking and supporting fellow assistants, the worst gift an executive gifted her, and more. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Contributor Judith Humphrey has had a number of jobs over the course of her professional life. After studying music in school, she taught English in Toronto before pivoting to the business world. There she crafted speeches for executives—first at major companies, and later at her own leadership communications firm. “My career was never a straight line,” she wrote for Fast Company recently.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
As the former CEO of five ventures and board member of dozens of others, Naeem Zafar has sat in his fair share of meetings. Zafar, a CEO coach who teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, and Northeastern University, says ineffective meetings are a “pain point” for him. “My whole life is driven by efficiency,” he says.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
The September 10 debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was a referendum on gender and the U.S. presidency—Trump’s, that is. During the past decade, U.S. voters have watched as Trump’s toxic masculinity —a particular version of masculinity that discourages empathy, expresses strength through dominance, normalizes violence against women, and associates leadership with white patriarchy—took over the Republican Party , was celeb
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