Category Archives: career

21 Oct

Why this job?

  Imagine you run a Starbucks. You manage a moderately busy branch with a typical traffic pattern, and your single most impactful control is in building a good team. Making your location clean, attractive, and smoothly efficient not only provides...
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12 Jun

Questions and the Common Ground

Everyone knows a good job interview goes in two directions — the potential hire is learning as much about the organization as organization learns about the candidate. Yet often the questions that get swapped around come from very different places....
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10 Apr

On “Using”

I use my boss to get money and to promote my own career through the success of my projects and my professionalism, to advance my own fortunes.   My boss uses me to accomplish his own job, and to make...
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