To a large measure, your likeability will lead to success or failure. It often trumps skill levels in surveys of HR people who are asked to name the most important characteristic of job candidates and employees. Other than “don’t be an asshole”...
Topics: Culture, how to become more likeable, likeablity, no assholes

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Is it just me or is this why job seekers have a hard time with career advice-givers. Just saying.  And I thought tweeting about going to the Mall was bad enough. TMI, Penelope, TMI.Getting a Brazilian. The woman waxing says she never sees people...
Topics: Penelope Trunk gets a brazilian

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I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require...
Topics: Glenn Beck, Jeff Bezos, Jobs Summit, Mark Cuban, Rachel Maddow, Scott Adams, Seth Godin, steve jobs, Tiger woods and jobs

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I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require...
Topics: Jobs Summit, Tiger woods and jobs

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I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require...
Topics: creating jobs, Jobs Summit

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