Six months later, those who went through the employee-centered orientation were up to 32% less likely to have quit than those who sat through a typical company-focused onboarding process.

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That new store will be filled with finely wrought homewares and elegant clothes, including sculptural dresses made from hand-felted cashmere in a centuries-old process typical of the French house's attention to detail.

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With so many unknowns, the programme teaches participants to treat their start-up as if it were a typical research project, amenable to the same iterative process of hypothesis testing and experimentation.

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The actual transfer process takes only a few minutes on a typical home Wi-Fi network.

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AngelList is a more merit-based system than the typical angel-fundraising process, Ravikant says.

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Limiting your investment to 100 or so stocks in a typical mutual fund and paying a 1.2% expense ratio in the process is often a losing proposition.

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The process also bypasses some of the regulatory and market scrutiny that comes with a typical IPO.

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Against a process driven by lobbyists, money, and unprincipled legislators willing to be influenced by both, the typical voter is completely rational in feeling unempowered and helpless.

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