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We had finished company layoffs one week and to spice up the bony severance packages we added career counseling. A silver lining of delivering these separation messages was reading the career counselor’s lengthy proposal, which detailed a three-meeting plan to get these newly untethered employees back on the market. Always having my own professional development top-of-mind, I eagerly scanned the plan to see how I stacked up.

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Getting Richer. With All the Gloom Around the Economy, Is the World Actually Growing Wealthier?

We're Getting Richer

From Editorial Team of The Intelligent Optimist, www.theoptimist.com

Think about it: These days, most poor families in the West have phones, TVs, washing machines and cars. The tap water is clean, and the food is safe to eat. We’re not trying to play down the problem of poverty, but these conditions are a vast improvement over those in, say, the 1950s.

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08/14/2017
We had finished company layoffs one week and to spice up the bony severance packages we added career counseling. A silver lining of delivering these separation messages was reading the career... read more
05/24/2014
We're Getting Richer From Editorial Team of The Intelligent Optimist, www.theoptimist.com Think about it: These days, most poor families in the West have phones, TVs, washing machines and... read more
Rubber stamp says APPROVED on trademark license.
08/14/2017
We had finished company layoffs one week and to spice up the bony severance packages we added career counseling. A silver lining of delivering these separation messages was reading the career... read more
05/24/2014
We're Getting Richer From Editorial Team of The Intelligent Optimist, www.theoptimist.com Think about it: These days, most poor families in the West have phones, TVs, washing machines and... read more