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College, where you learn to really think about what you do

Last updated Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 5:03pm

Like all teachers on the college level, Adrienne Gillespie is both dismayed by and thrilled with her students. Thrilled because some are wonders: Bright. Aggressive. Able to leap tall concepts with a single mental bound. They know why they need an education. They mean to get one.

These are the students whose papers get graded last. Why? Every professor needs a treat.

She’s dismayed because some students are ticket punchers, people who “just say, ‘Give me my degree. I just need a degree. Why do you want me to take these other classes?’ ”

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The simple secrets to success in achieving your goals

Brad Larsen Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 10:03pm

There is a wonderfully simple way to realize your professional goals. At times, achieving our goals seems so far off or slow that we get discouraged, procrastinate or just give up. We fall back into old, comfortable habits that lead nowhere.

There is a method that has been used by many successful business people and advocated by many great thinkers.

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Salary freezes tax worker productivity

Joyce Gannon Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 11:55am

Salary freezes, employee layoffs and greater health-care costs count among the obvious reasons for low morale in many workplaces.

Combine those forces with the stress of figuring out how to pay the mortgage or college tuition, and many employees end up seriously disengaged from work.

A report by Aflac, the insurance underwriter known best for the duck featured in its advertising, said that 42 percent of employees at small businesses were coping with a financial crisis and that 38 percent had experienced significant issues that affect how well they do their work.

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