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Best smart thermostat 2021 to help you stay warm and save money

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Adding one of the best smart thermostats to your home helps it stay just the right temperature no matter what’s going on outside – and they can save you energy and money while doing it, as a bonus. The best smart thermostats can help keep you hot or cool as needed, but not just on a basic set schedule – you can control them remotely from the app, or you can use voice control from the best smart speakers, but even more importantly they can adapt and learn from your habits…

Leadership Resources That Will Boost Your Effectiveness

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Being a leader is a noble role in any organization.  Through your direction, guidance and expertise, you can positively affect the lives of countless individuals (customers, employees, colleagues and vendors) by keeping things running purposefully, smoothly and consistently.  You are literally holding the success of others in your hands! The downside of being in a leadership role is the tremendous responsibility, endless demands and long hours needed to keep things running successfully.  Oftentimes, great leaders experience fatigue, overwhelm and the occasional feelings of doubt about being able to continue at…

How to Better Manage People with One Simple Test

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Among the many frustrations that keep managers awake at night is the feeling that their employees are not performing their best in their respective jobs.  This suspicion can be the source of many performance related issues and can affect new managers and established ones alike. These concerns persist because of not fully knowing why some people work hard to be great employees and others do not.  Surprisingly, education, knowledge and experience have little to do with the factors that cause employees not to take full ownership for their jobs. There…

A New Era Of Remote Healthcare Technology

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Around the world, legions of selfless healthcare professionals have demonstrated their commitment and resilience in awe-inspiring ways. As we watch them and thank them, what can we — the rest of the world — learn about resiliency and agility? We have already grown used to the images of front-line medical professionals covered head to toe in masks and gowns. What we don’t see as much is that while they toil to help their patients survive, they simultaneously communicate and work together to develop new ideas for diagnoses, treatment and care.…

Why Bill Gates Is Not The Man To Reimagine New York Education

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It literally took less than an hour for the pushback to start. Governor Andrew Cuomo dismissively questioned why school buildings even exist these days, and announced that he was enlisting Bill Gates to help reimagine education in the Empire State. From a dozen different corners, the objections came. One day later, Cuomo’s Facebook page attempted to soften the announcement. “Teachers are heroes & nothing could ever replace in-person learning,” the post began, before assuring readers that the reimagining would be done “in full partnership with educators and administrators.” That does…

Do recurring investment for yearly goal

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I retired at the age of 65. Now there is no contribution to my Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) account. Will my account continue to earn interest as declared from time to time? —R.K. Gupta Employees typically rely on EPF to build their retirement corpus. With years of contribution both by the employer and the employee and along with the interest, and the benefit of compounding which works in favour of the investor, a sizeable corpus is built. On top of that, the tax-free status given to EPF makes it an…