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Top 5 Life Habits of a Strong Work Ethic

Building Personal Strength

Some of these 40 strengths directly support what we call a "work ethic." To acquire a work ethic, you have to make going to work and earning money a habit. I was fortunate because I came from a large family with a lower-middle-class background. Listen to this discussion about parents who encourage kids to acquire a work ethic.

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Attention Leaders: Five Attitudes to Take to work in 2013

You're Not the Boss of Me

So, with that in mind, here are five attitudes that I think will be necessary for business leaders to take, in achieving success in 2013 and beyond: Attitude # 1: Diversity is not a black and white subject ~ There are a myriad of distinctions between human beings. And, what better time to do it than at the beginning of a New Year?

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16. Date: June 8, 2013 07:12. Date: June 8, 2013 07:22. Knight, I have class all day, but I can talk this evening after 6. Date: June 8, 2013 07:25. Date: June 8, 2013 19:21. Date: June 14, 2013 19:26. Date: June 14 2013 23:47.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job?

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. The goal is to attract the British middle classes, and it appears to be working.

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We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists

Harvard Business Review

You’re probably familiar with the basic outlines, but it’s worth throwing out a few numbers from their most recent update : From 1993 to 2013, incomes of the bottom 99% of taxpayers in the U.S. Instead, the correlation between inequality and mobility is driven primarily by “middle class” inequality. Compensation Economy Ethics'

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. .” Do you have a strong work ethic?’” “It’s very much, ‘Can you learn?

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