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9 Tips From Famous Writers On Being Successful

Joseph Lalonde

His letter hammers home in a loving but firm way the virtues of hard work. Success Can Kill Your Career. There are a few writers whose success actually killed their careers. If It Doesn’t Kill Your Career, Success Can Certainly Make it More Difficult. Cari is a freelance blogger and content writer at Jet Writers.

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Failure, the Other “F” Word | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Workplace Democracy – A Genie in A Bottle The Dreaded Performance Review → July 6, 2009 · 9:36 pm ↓ Jump to Comments Failure, the Other “F&# Word Failure. I don’t like it.

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. . “A resume is a very selective body of content. But don’t.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

During his remarkable career, described in detail here , Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held. We should therefore make an attempt to understand the content of the cultural box of our negotiating counterparts. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky.

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Consulting, Content and Context: A Fable

QAspire

It is said that when only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Consultant was trying to nail the problems with the only hammer he had – the best practices. Context provides meaning to content. If you think of your knowledge content as water, context is the glass that holds it, gives it a shape; an identity.