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Modern Mentorship Is Changing, But It’s Still About Relationships

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It was such a good lesson,” Watts says, “because that’s what we look for from our mentors. There can be forced matches, a lack of chemistry between mentors and mentees, and people who feel obligated to take part in something they don’t want to do.”. You can Google ‘ Do I need a mentor ?’ They’re looking to get better.

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Slim & Husky’s Uses Their Artisan Pizza as a Means for Social Change and Community Empowerment

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Reed, they never knew it would one day inspire the business model for their fast-casual restaurant empire. Everyone at some point thinks about owning some sort of restaurant or hospitality venture. It was cool to have art in the restaurant, but we wanted a place where we could house different events that support the arts,” Gray says.

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Magic Johnson’s Fast Break Into Business

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The second thing I learned is that if you want someone to be your mentor , you better be ready to listen and be humbled,” Johnson says. A lot of athletes go out and want to start sports bars or restaurants, and they do it without vision of what they’re going to add to their customers,” Johnson says. “I I can say that because I did it.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Find a mentor. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Ask restaurant servers for low-sodium options—you’d be surprised how eager they are to help. Who knows, that may be the very thing that you need to break out into a brilliant new future. Take stock and charge forward. Are any of those battles worth continuing? Attend training.

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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

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To keep the 76,000-square-foot store running with only 120 employees, down 40% from the prior year, and with 50% fewer staff in the restaurant, they had to find efficiencies like streamlining the restaurant menu. My dad told me: ‘Rick, if you want the restaurant to run well, be in the restaurant.’ Great advice.”

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Experts Weigh in on 17 Investments for a Rich Life

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We are so much more interesting when we have interests outside of work, so take an improv class, join your Y’s intramural basketball league, mentor a kid in the community, volunteer at your alma mater.” The American food culture is based on ‘more is better’ and the idea that processed food from a box or a fast-food restaurant is a meal.

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What Can Workplace Design Practitioners Learn From Human Psychology?

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Practically speaking, are there an ample amount of socially driven spaces where people from different generations (Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers, Millennials and Gen Z’ers) can come together for informal mentoring opportunities and to learn by experiencing?

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