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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

← To be or not to be: can authenticity at work limit your career options? After sitting through a few career and coaching discussions over the past week involving money, titles and career satisfaction, I felt a certain quote was worth repeating: “Don’t chase the paper, chase the dream.&# Hsieh credited P.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Communications.