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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

When she wasn't busy mentoring Francis Ford Coppola, pioneering the invention of the boom mic, or accepting her star on the Walk of Fame , Arzner was also the first woman to join the Director's Guild of America. She also wrote for the most prestigious magazines of the time, despite her gender. Ava DuVernay. Shero Explorers.

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A Maxim For Leaders For 2011

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Engage Your Employees.Especially Now

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

When you’re reading Seventeen Magazine, you’re really about 13 years old. So to get the design and language geared to them is very difficult because most of the stuff for them is ads and magazines. Museums aren’t competing with other museums; they’re competing with corporate America. We’d vet designs past kids. With counsel.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Interestingly, Doe Run has a sister company down in Latin America. I started to talk to my colleagues and friends and mentors about whether or not there was a forum for women doing this work to connect and share what they know--share best practices, share resources, inspire each other's efforts, collaborate across the world.

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