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Eliminate Performance Anxiety Forever

You've had many years of training in your craft as a performer, singer, actor etc. but if you still feel haunted by the ravages of Performance Anxiety your career may be in serious jeopardy.

Stop Going to Meetings - 10 Questions to Ask Before Attending a Meeting - Get More Productive

We get invited to attend so many 'meetings' but do we need to attend them all? Use these 10 questions to assess if you should attend that next meeting invitation. What is the agenda of the meeting? Don't attend a meeting without a clear agenda otherwise you are wasting time.

Smart Choices: How to Hire the Best

Your organization's continued growth and success depend on making smart choices and hiring the best. Today's economy is exploding with talent, allowing you to be selective about the staff you hire.

14 Ways to De-Stress Employee Vacations

Employees truly deserve paid vacations. They struggle through stressful jobs most of the year, and productivity goes down if they don't get a break.

How To Use Outsourcing To Beat Your Competition

Outsourcing is when you hire outside professionals or services to take on part of your business workload. You may want to outsource part of your work because you don't have the room, you need an expert, you have periodic busy periods, or you need more production to get orders out on time etc.

Boost Your Leadership Skills By Disciplining Yourself In The Way Of The Question Mark

I'm often asked to come in to organizations and give a motivational speech to their employees. I reply that I'm not a motivational speaker.

10 Ways To Maintain Profits In A Slow Economy

1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base.

Employee Retention: Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business

The retention of highly skilled knowledge workers is one of the major challenges today for all organizatons. Knowledge workers are those whose work primarily requires the use of "mental power rather than muscle power.

Encouraging Behavior That Gets Results

You're the boss, and you have every reason to feel good about your organization. You've built a great team.

Summertime Blues

It's hard to believe the year will be half over in just a few weeks. All the planning you did is either turning out great, coming along slowly but surely or hasn't really gotten off the ground because other issues keep getting in the way.

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Wholesale inventories fall, sales surge (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. wholesale inventories fell modestly in January, while sales rose to their highest level since October 2008, suggesting that inventories would continue to support economic growth in the first quarter.
Wholesale inventories fall while sales increase (AP)
AP - Businesses trimmed inventories at the wholesale level again in January even though sales rose for a 10th consecutive month. The dip in inventories underscored that businesses remain cautious about restocking their depleted shelves.
UK's Brown paves way for election with budget date (AP)
AP - Britain's economic recovery remains fragile, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Wednesday, as he paved the way for a national election by announcing the government's budget would be published in two weeks.
Home loan demand nudges higher in latest week (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. mortgage applications nudged higher last week, reflecting increased demand for home purchase loans even as interest rates trekked higher, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.

Regulators tell banks to restrict dividends, buybacks: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Shareholders may have to wait for months to retrieve capital after U.S. regulators told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares amid political and economic uncertainty surrounding the financial industry, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
GDP seen slowing, tying Fed hands on rates (Reuters)
Reuters - After a growth spurt at the end of 2009, the U.S. economy will slow in the months ahead, keeping the Federal Reserve from raising borrowing costs until the final three months of the year, a Reuters poll showed.
Senate to pass jobless aid, business tax breaks (AP)
AP - Legislation blending help for the jobless with popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals is slated to pass the Senate Wednesday over protests from conservatives who say it adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt.
European stocks edge ahead as investors await data (AFP)

AFP - Europe's leading stock markets nudged higher on Wednesday as traders awaited key US economic data and assessed the latest batch of company results.

Ahead of the Bell: February budget deficit (AP)
AP - Economists believe that the federal budget deficit through the first five months of the budget year is running at a record-breaking pace, with the February imbalance likely to climb to the highest level this fiscal year.
German January exports up 0.2 percent on year (AP)
AP - Official data shows German January exports improved 0.2 percent compared with January 2009 but declined a sharp 6.3 percent from December.
Strong China trade data point to rise in yuan (Reuters)

Reuters - Chinese exports and imports grew faster than expected in February, underlining the momentum behind the world's third-largest economy and reinforcing the case for a rise in the yuan.

China plans new trade office as global disputes grow: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - China is setting up a new agency to help streamline its trade negotiating bureaucracy as the world's third-largest economy faces a growing number of commercial disputes.
Highlights of Senate jobless aid bill (AP)
AP - Highlights of Senate legislation extending unemployment insurance and expired tax breaks:
Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating (Reuters)

Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.

Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
US to expose trade barriers in new report (AFP)

AFP - The United States said it would expose "troublesome" foreign trade barriers in a strategy to prise open markets for doubling American exports to ease an unemployment crisis at home.

Gas price rises seen gentler on consumer wallets (AP)

AP - As the economy recovers, energy prices are rising and that is placing extra strain on families' budgets.

SEC chief economist leaving (AP)
AP - The chief economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is an expert on the financial instruments that figured largely in the 2008 crisis, is leaving his position for the private sector.
Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M (AP)

AP - Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, evidence that employers are slowly ramping up hiring as the economy improves.

Texas Instruments CEO pay up 2 percent to $9.8M (AP)
AP - Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc.'s CEO's compensation edged up in 2009, according to calculations by the Associated Press, a recession year that proved difficult for the chipmaker.

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