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The 20% Doctrine: How Tinkering, Goofing Off, and Breaking the Rules at Work Drive Success in Business

Kevin Eikenberry

By Ryan Tate This book’s title is a tip of the hat to Google’s famous 20% of time given to work on personal projects of interest. This isn’t really a new idea – Peters and Waterman made the idea of “skunkworks” famous in their book In Search of Excellence back in 1983. Yet the concept […].

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10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011.

Rich Gee Group

5 Tips On How To Treat New Employees. Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. recent posts 3 Tips To Take More Powerful Notes During Meetings. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Some are lining up their teams for that final push. Smile or Die!

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