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Technology for Mono-Tasking

For the past six years my colleague Terry Grim and I have taught the opening course in the Administrators Masters Program of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. The class is a two-day plunge into management basics: leadership skills, management skills, fundamentals of project management, communication skills, customer service, and effective strategy—plus a practical…

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The Big Flip

I’ve just finished reading The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family, by Liza Mundy, a Washington Post reporter. Mundy closely examines what she calls the Big Flip: the rapid trend toward millions of women in the US, Western Europe, and East Asia becoming the primary breadwinner…

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