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3 Reasons Every Extrovert Should Read The New Book "Quiet" Up to a half of the population are introverts. In other words, they don’t thrive on endless meetings, don’t want to solve a problem by talking about it with a group for hours, and don’t want to attend lunches, conferences, and dinners all the time. The new book "Quiet" by Susan Cain can help us extroverts better communicate with and learn from the more silent types in our lives. Updated Mon Jan 23, 2012

7 Ways To Motivate Employees With Workplace Flexibility Organizations that employ a healthy and robust work/life flexibility--and not just on paper--will win the talent war. Allison O’Kelly, CEO of Mom Corps, a staffing services company, offers pain-free ways to move your company toward greater flexibility that benefits you as well as your employees. Updated Thu Dec 15, 2011

Will Working Remotely Work? 7 "What If" Scenarios To Consider First The difference between success and failure with any type of flexible work, including remote work, comes down to contingency planning. In other words, answering the question: "What if 'x' happens...?" to as many scenarios as you can possibly think of upfront. Updated Wed Nov 16, 2011

How To Uncover Blind Spots When Mapping Your Career Path In her thought-provoking new book "Blind Spots," Alexandra Levit reintroduces the long-absent and important, “Yes, but…” and “So…” to some of today’s most common career beliefs. Updated Tue Nov 8, 2011