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Have LinkedIn and Medium Killed the Old-Fashioned Blog?

Harvard Business Review

When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. I knew I wasn’t going to pursue a traditional academic career, but I wasn’t sure what else a Ph.D. Before I knew it, I had started what we’d now call a social media agency.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. 2 (2004): 349–399. In my study of thirty-nine midcareer man­agers and professionals considering major career changes, I ob­served directly how much their old networks can “bind and blind” them.

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How to Recover from a Blunder

Harvard Business Review

The rash of mea culpas we've seen in recent months — culminating this week in Congressman Anthony Weiner's press conference to explain his tawdry tweets — had brought to mind a mistake-fuelled media frenzy from my past: Howard Dean's famous scream, and the lessons we learned from it. So how do you move forward?

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