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The good thing about tantrums
Years ago, I needed to know how to deal with toddler tantrums. I was at my wit’s end but knew there was some information somewhere out there in the world that would help me. I learned that it was just part of the child’s development, something you get through calmly, and not necessarily an indication…
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Leave a review
Just a quick reminder: It’s okay to reach out directly to brands. Maybe you had a bad experience. Or an amazing one. Or one that was so-so. You can use the contact page on the brand website, call the phone number on your package, or leave a review. You can provide the feedback directly to…
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A new find to lift the mood
Togas. I had never heard of the brand before, but now I want to hear more. It’s yet another of my finds while exploring what’s new at Nordstrom. There the brand offers traditional diffusers. However, on their own site, they offer an array of home goods, including what they call ceramic sachets. I’m intrigued by…
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Not the post I’d hope to write
I rolled past a gas station in a different part of town. I remarked the higher that expected price and attributed to that area. And then there was another and another, and then I realized what was going on. The recent strikes on Iran were having an effect at the pump. There are more serious…
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What you can learn from Ring’s Search Party fiasco
Fear was triggered by something that seemed innocent: Let’s all work together to find lost dogs. When the ad Ring’s Search Party debuted during the Super Bowl an ad, many people got concerned. The very thing that they brought to their homes to protect their families could become a mass surveillance tool and threaten the…
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The unexpected reason why I have to wash my face daily
I have products to review, and there are topics I want to write about. But for some reason, I am stalling. I don’t know why, but I’m not inspired to write today. This is the routine I set up for myself, but I just don’t want to do it. So, I’ll do it anyway. I’ll…
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Reliving the nostalgia of Victoria’s Secret Rapture
They say you should never meet your heroes. But what about your long lost memories? Should you try to unearth them? Years ago in high school, I was obsessed with Victoria’s Secret Rapture. My mother gave me a bottle of the scented lotion she no longer wanted. As I was growing in my desire to…
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The underperformers
All of my research this week about layoffs has me scrutinizing my own life. The part that hits hard right now is the idea that we as a business collective do mass layoffs because we don’t want to deal with actually firing people for poor performance. I wrote a whole article about how we just…
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This one reason drives too many layoffs
We often talk about layoffs a cost cutting measure, but it could be down to one other issue. We don’t know how to give feedback. Sometimes, those rounds of layoffs are thinly disguised ways of getting rid of employees who are not up to standard. Except you may have never told them the standard in…
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More on the costs of layoffs
I got into the research tunnel about layoffs. That led me to this HBR article: A Better, Fairer Approach to Layoffs . The authors, Sulene and Gupta, pointed to multiple examples where layoffs led to reduced sales and company performance. Trying to reduce costs through the labor force led to trickle effects that damaged the…
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