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Here’s why “A” talent doesn’t get hired

20 reasons why weak managers hire weakly.  There are also some fascinating things companies do to keep it from happening.  Not letting managers hire people is a fascinating idea.  Check it out here.

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Your New Career Is Only 3 or 4 Steps Away

If you want to do something else, look for someone who can help you achieve that dream. You may first have to hitch your career to a place that will help you pay for the school education you need. The time will come when you are too constricted there. You will have the school education. Next you need

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I make the milk – getting credit

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty.  (Rockefeller)

With up to 9 kids (we have 10) at home, we drink a lot of milk. There isn’t enough room in our 2 refrigerators to keep enough fresh milk.  We use powdered milk instead.

Every morning I get up [...]

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The guy who invented running

An expert knows all the answers – if you ask the right questions.

 

Jim Fixx passed away in 1984.  Some obituaries said, “The man who invented running died.” Before his book, The Complete Book of Running, jogging and running were not sports.  They were just weird.  Jim Fixx didn’t revolutionize running, he just brought it acceptance.  [...]

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inferiority vs superiority

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (E. Roosevelt)

Kids always made fun of the way I dressed.  I had two shirts and two pairs of jeans for the whole school year.  That’s all.  I had cheap shoes.  For dinner our family had beans every night, literally.  We drank powdered milk.  [...]

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repeat of 4 secrets to getting a MUCH better job

How to get a great job is a secret only 5% of the people I talk to understand.  Nose to the grindstone, being the best, and sacrificing for the team DO NOT WORK without 4 other things.

For 17 years I have watched top performers get great jobs and get very bad jobs.  I’ve also seen mediocre and [...]

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How to get an impossible job – tips from a spy

This is an open letter to my son.  He is brilliant.  He also just got turned down for every graduate program he wanted to attend this fall.  This deals precisely with job hunting.

So you didn’t get into any of the schools.  Good thing we had a spy to tell us what NONE of the professors [...]

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Even lasers have to focus

Laser light has three basic attributes: coherence, focus and intensity.

Lasers, by nature, are unfocused. A common misconception is that the light comes out of a laser in a tight beam.  It does not.  If you take a laser pointer apart you will see a simple lens just in front of the laser. Because of the [...]

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I want to be a fireman when I grow up. What about you?

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.  (Aristotle)

I went to a Boy Scout camp where a fire company put on a rescue demonstration.  They had 3 cars.  One by one they ripped them apart using hydraulic tools.  Right then I decided that I want to be a fireman when I grow up.  I [...]

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