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Powerful Quotes From The Book, Just Listen

Eric Jacobson

. - Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. Henry Ford To succeed in your career, it''s less important what you know or even who you know than who truly knows you and how they know you.

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Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It

Harvard Business Review

Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost unbearable. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar.

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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

How to Maximize Your Chances. No matter how impressive his or her résumé seems, you know unearned advantages made each accomplishment easier, so each tells us less about what he or she is truly capable of. So there's no reason to think a conventional leader is the right choice.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Here a few notable examples. Economics and logistics.

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Three Times You Have to Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting. Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. Only you know how to answer the question, "Is this worth it?" It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent.

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