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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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11 Jul

A Will to Fail

If you attempt a life goal and fail (the subject doesn’t matter), that’s your choice, and your burden. It’s your choice to try, and your knowledge that you may fail. If you should fail, you may fall back on your...
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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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12 May

Clinch Your Technical Interview: It’s Not All Technical

The words technical interview strike fear into many a technical job-seeker. You’ve heard the horror stories, maybe you’ve gone through the process before: the grueling and sweat-inducing second- or third-round interview to make sure you know your stuff cold. You...
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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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