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Is It Cheating to Have a Side Project?

Harvard Business Review

You should be spending at least 1,000 hours a year--that's about six hours a week; about an hour a day — preparing for a new career (Just in case that your industry goes the way of publishing, pay phones, photo finishing and the like and either disappears or radically changes to the point where there is no room for you.).

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. — dismissal of perfectly profitable innovations because they're not digital, technological, or fashionable reveals more about elitist snobbery than market substance. Airy — dare I say arrogant? Auto interior designers loathed them. How vulgar and crass.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

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Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy

Strategy Driven

More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox.

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

It was 23 years ago, and I was just starting my leadership career. Thank you for sharing your story about your boss – I love his attitude and am sure that so much of what you later accomplished was because he helped you “fix&# that “can’t&# mentality early on in your career! It’s useless.