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Néstor Hugo Solari of Sigo: “Learn as much as you can, as fast as you can”

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As a first-time founder, you can’t even lean on tangential experience building a company that would be applicable. Learning faster is an advantage because time is often a luxury founders don’t have. At the time, Finance was the most competitive major at the business school, and so I decided to pursue it, somewhat blindly.

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Vikki Caruso of Clearcover: “Creating work culture at home”

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Work culture offered a cool office downtown, where there were snacks and LaCroix all the time. This is a good and bad story at the same time, but at one of my previous companies we, unfortunately, had to lay off almost 100 people a couple of weeks before the holidays. It was a very difficult time. not an option. not an option.

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Sonia Jackson Myles of The Accord Group: “Diverse staff helps retain diverse staff”

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I began to ponder what my role in changing this could be and I knew I couldn’t do it while I had my corporate role (by that time I was responsible for all packaging globally for P&G) and so I left a job that I loved. Another aspect of the work I spent a lot of time on when I was at Ford was recruiting more diverse talent.

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Mindfulness Skills in Times of Uncertainty

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And more interestingly, what are the practices that can help you get through this exceedingly challenging time of stress and uncertainty? Over time, you’ll be amazed at the patterns that show up! Body Scan : Attending and listening to your body, in a nonreactive way, creates a safe space in which you can anchor in the observer place.

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It’s Time To Invest In Human Sustainability

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It’s time we make sure we’re investing in human sustainability. In an article titled “ Time to Rethink the S in ESG ”, published in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the authors highlight the role that the pandemic played in bringing the “S” into the spotlight. It’s time to add an H ,” authors Michelle A.

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A First Time Manager’s Guide To Managing People Remotely

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A few months ago when I became a manager for the first time, the last thing I was expecting to figure out was how to manage my team remotely. I just wasn’t expecting a global pandemic to be one of them. We didn’t count on kids, partners, and pets becoming full-time officemates either. Schedule regular check-ins.

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Graduating? It’s Your Time to Thrive!

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Graduation is always a time of transition, with newly minted graduates optimistically but anxiously heading out into an uncertain world to make their futures. Your Time to Thrive is made for this moment. But the only way to do that is by taking it one day — and one Microstep — at a time. That’s our new normal.