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When I was about 10 years old, my father said, “one of these days, your sharp tongue will get you into trouble”. I wanted to find out more about what he meant, or perhaps I saw an opportunity to lock…
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Is there such a thing as a ‘perfect time’ to change your job? Perfect in the sense that you leave when it is ideal for your career development while causing the least harm to your employer, your professional reputation is…
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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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= Do you want the short or the long answer Mel? – Let’s start with the short answer first = She was CRAP! – But she had more than 10 years experience as PA to a major retailer CEO, how…
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I am indebted to Kirstin Duffield for triggering a chain of thoughts in my mind when she published a post called “Surprising Stats?” Over the years, there has been a gradual shift in young people’s choice of direction after school….
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In the 1978 seminal trilogy of five (sic) books known as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the fictional planet of Golgarfrincham seniors considered a third of the population to be useless. So, they pretended that the…
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