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Productivity tip #6: Calculate the cost of your meeting and act accordingly

By Matthew Dicks | May 9, 2014 |

Planning a meeting? Multiply the number of minutes you plan on speaking by the number of people attending the meeting and ask yourself: Is the information that I am presenting worthy of the amount of salary and lost productivity that your meeting will cost? For example, if you are conducting a meeting with 20 people…

Cost effective way of attending college

By Matthew Dicks | June 7, 2012 |

The New York Times recently ran a piece on the soaring cost of college: For all borrowers, the average debt in 2011 was $23,300, with 10 percent owing more than $54,000 and 3 percent more than $100,000, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports. Average debt for bachelor degree graduates who took out loans…