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Over the last few years, the Corporate World has been going through dramatic changes many of which are for the good but, not all. Social media has been embraced by sales and marketing functions to reach out to their target…
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Like everyone else, I have had conventional and valuable business advice along the lines of “be good; work hard; own up to your responsibilities, etc.” I also had unconventional and more memorable advice from oddballs and lateral thinkers in the…
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I was having a casual conversation with my youngest daughter who will graduate from university next summer. Gradually, the chat moved from the casual to the deep as we began contrasting life pressures on her Millennial Generation compared to my…
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Disclaimer: Mathematicians and actuaries; do not read the rest of this article, it will offend your calculative sensibilities. Do you have a minute? A question I hear almost daily from work colleagues. I too use it to borrow other people’s…
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Somewhere between the age of 25 and 45, when we are at the peak of our involvement in career matters and competing for the next position up the greasy pole of corporate life, we go through phases of longing for…
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I once worked for a multi-national company who organised an annual 3-day conference aimed at the 100 most senior employees of the company out of some 3,000. At great expense in time and money, we met, presented our success stories,…
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A lot of politics we’ve been having lately…
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I cannot tell you how often I traveled far to attend meetings that said a lot and produced little or nothing…
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Surviving corporate politics is a difficult art to master
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My default setting is to talk fast and finish what I have to say quickly in case my listeners get bored, but more to the point, in case I get bored with myself
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