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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

The importance of research, due-diligence and marketplace understanding surface. By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Experience Gathering – Circumstances within and outside your control caused the projects to fail. Grooming – The team let you down.

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How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer

Harvard Business Review

Even when the money on offer is enough to live on, you need to figure out if it’s an amount worthy of your knowledge and skills and whether it’s in line with the local market. “If you are a perfect match for the job and it’s a tight market, you have a lot of leverage,” says Lees. Cultural fit.

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How to Tell If a Company’s Culture Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. The economy?

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How to Work for a Gossipy Boss

Harvard Business Review

’” Your goal, says Rothbard, is to “change the subject.” ” Finally, bring the conversation “back to your boss’s noble goals.” Case Study #1: Steer the conversation toward neutral ground and cut your boss a break. “Say, ‘I see that time is getting away from us.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you. ” Your goal is to determine “where this company is on the growth curve,” he says. Ask them, “Is this company pre- or post-revenue?

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How to Ask for the Job Title You Deserve

Harvard Business Review

Case Study #1: Do your due diligence and align the title change with your boss’s priorities. Before making the request, she strategized by thinking about how the title change would help him achieve his goals. Asking for a new title is an ongoing negotiation. Her boss agreed and changed her title immediately.

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