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• 5 strategies for better construction cash flow

  Aki Merced Construction & Building Materials

  "Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king." This oft-repeated adage has stood the test of time for a good reason. It is the principle that guides business owners on the importance of cash flow. No matter how successful you are in promoting your business and closing sales, operating with a negative cash flow can severely impact your operations. Here are five strategies that you can use to manage your cash better and maintain a positive cash flow.

• 4 quick tips to using webcam technology to increase your influence

  Stacey Hanke Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  There is power in making a genuine connection with others. When coming face-to-face with those we work with, lead or service, we create a stronger bond and deeper connection. If you’ve ever gotten to know a client or co-worker over the phone, only then to later meet them face-to-face, you will understand. The relationship heightens and becomes more personal. Technology has gifted us with webcams. Now, with the simple push of a button, we can get face-to-face with others, no matter where they are in the world, and deepen our relationship in a way not possible before.

• The power of personal promotion

  Fred Berns Marketing

  If you've been in business for a while, you're probably pretty good at what you do. And, chances are, you're committed to becoming better. Great! But if you're like many business professionals, you're not as good at telling others how good you are. You may, in fact, be your own best kept secret. Not so great. The problem with that is this: it doesn’t matter how good you are if you're the only one who knows. The most important sale you'll ever make is the personal one.

• Teaching and coaching in a multigenerational setting

  Rey Hernandez Education

  I retired from coaching in 2012 after 36 years on the sideline coaching high school football, and in 2017, I retired from teaching. In order to stay busy, I decided to do some substitute teaching and agreed to join the varsity coaching staff at a local high school. During my time away from football, I saw many changes in the high school game. Some of these changes came in the form of administrative directives and legislative mandates that were enacted in response to growing safety concerns related to on-field concussions. Those changes were accompanied by a decrease in the number of students participating in football.

• Sleep disorders on the rise in the US; World Dental Congress responds

  Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental Healthcare

  Sleep apnea, a potentially serious sleep disorder, is defined by breathing that repeatedly stops and starts during sleep. With the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine estimating that about 30 million adults in the U.S. have obstructive sleep apnea (the most common type), this September’s American Dental Association’s FDI World Dental Congress will shine a spotlight on what presenters are calling a hot topic.The ADA Dental Sleep Medicine Conference, in partnership with the ADA Council on Dental Practice, will be held Sept. 4-5, with 14 hours of continuing education credit offered.

• New technologies are vitally important for K-12 schools

  Bambi Majumdar Education

  We talk about digital transformation but we have little idea about the supersonic speed at which we are transforming. What once seemed fantastic and in the realm of science fiction is an everyday reality now. With these rapid changes in technology, adapting and embracing new teaching practices are needed for K-12 students to be ready technology of the future. In an age of automated stores like Amazon Go, augmented reality, and virtual reality, the mind boggles to imagine what today’s kindergartners will know in terms of technology when they graduate from college.

• Pro-gun sanctuary cities causing rifts in state, local governments

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  You don't have to be a Chicagoan to understand the great divide between the city and the rest of Illinois anymore. An ironic twist to the word "sanctuary" has made it easier for all. Known for its liberal politics and being one of the leading "sanctuary cities" in the country concerning immigration, it has a very different mindset than rural and some parts of suburban Illinois. This fact is now clearly reflected in the move made by some local officials to transform parts of the state into gun sanctuaries. Areas of Washington state, Oregon and New Mexico have done the same.

• Housing America part 5: Cooperatives — taking the profit out of shelter

  Lucy Wallwork Construction & Building Materials

  Housing cooperatives essentially represent the "third way" between renting and owning a property. This model once formed part of the bedrock of affordable shelter provisions in New York, but more recently has been rapidly disappearing. Often famed more for the celebrity interest they attract than their role in combating the housing crisis, some are now turning to housing cooperatives as part of the solution to the housing affordability crisis hitting many U.S. cities. However, while cities like New York have a rich history of cooperatives, they are often both misunderstood and overlooked.

• How to alienate the board at your first meeting

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  Want to make a bad impression as the newest member of the board of directors? Learn from these mistakes. For example, miss the first two meetings. Then, when you do show up, tell them you read that the bylaws permits two "unexcused absences" so you thought you'd take them at the start of your term. Also, arrive 45 minutes after the meeting starts and ask the chairman, "Would you mind recapping what I missed so I can get up to speed?"

• A new insight for studying dyslexia

  Dorothy L. Tengler Communications

  Dyslexia, a widespread learning disability, occurs when an individual has significant difficulty with speed and accuracy of word decoding. Despite different therapeutic approaches and learning strategies to address the reading and writing difficulties, there is no cure for dyslexia. And despite previous studies that developmental dyslexia is caused by dysfunction of structures in the cerebral cortex, the reasons for such alterations remain unknown. However, a recent study conducted by Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein and an international team of experts reveals that people with dyslexia have a weakly developed structure that is not located in the cerebral cortex but at a subcortical processing stage.

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