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If you’re a working adult who wants to land a promotion by going back to school and completing a bachelor’s degree, a core question you need to ask yourself is how you want to apply leadership. Do you ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

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