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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. (Mark Twain) 12 words is the most that people will read on a billboard. (That was 12 words.) 1 ½ or 2 inches of print 12 to 15 seconds is all the time [...]  Too many people climb the ladder of success, only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall. (unkn) Why not go for the CEO job? Jim just took a job as a manager of a small company. He’s been a CEO before. He took the lowly manager’s job because he likes it better than being CEO. [...] It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. (Edith Nesbitt) What does being unusual have to do with getting a job? A lot. Because everyone is unusual in some way. Everyone knows you can’t run for Governor and expect to win if you are a professional wrestler who wears feather boas. [...] Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Mark Twain) Facts would be nice Stephen King, author of more than 30 best selling horror books, wrote a book on writing. He says, “Get rid of adjectives.” This top author refuse to write, “She stealthily crept down the spooky staircase which [...] Most career plans don’t include the most important element in job advancement. Let me show it to you. An usher at the movie theater I worked at wanted to become the lead usher. After the movie started he would always be the first to grab a broom and start sweeping the lobby. Once he even told me [...] In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. (unkn) Are goals useful? One famous study showed that people with written goals coming out of college earned several times more than people without written goals. But, look at yourself. If you still have the same written or unwritten goals you [...] When I started at EDS I was learning at an incredible rate. Pay raises came quickly and easily. By my third year things slowed down. By my fifth year I settled into a dreary cycle of little new personal growth and cost of living raises. I managed to get assigned to a new team using [...] Are you trying to be successful doing the work that successful people throw out? This true story is about more than salespeople. It is about accountants, programmers and managers too. Paul, beginning his job in sales, told me, “My manager seems to be able to make a sale every time we go on a call together. [...] My daughter Merrilee has Down Syndrome and is low functioning within that group. My son James got a perfect score on the SAT Advanced Calculus II college entrance exam. Each can do things the other can’t. We look at James and say, “He can do anything!” No, he can’t. He doesn’t … Writers fall in love with their work. Every word is a work of art. When you put together your resume, you are even more in love with your work because it is about you. You can’t possibly leave out how you gave CPR to a chipmunk and saved its life. Leave it out anyway. Now do something even harder. |
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