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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Please add me to your LinkedIn network
When I connect to someone on LinkedIn, there’s a very good chance that person and I know each other (or could at least pick one another out of a crowd). That’s just one of my basic LinkedIn rules. Another is … Continue reading
Appreciating determined persistence (and other intangibles)
By my calculations, I’ve hired more than 60 people as a manager. As a matter of process, all of the HR people I’ve ever worked with offered to screen the incoming resumes and give me what they thought were the … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking through clutter, finding a job, job hunting, jon friesch, standing out
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Precious time
I recently scheduled a meeting, but the attendees phoning in hopped on a different conference line than the one I sent out. So I was waiting on the one I sent while they were waiting on some other line. One … Continue reading
Mean people suck
It was a very unlikely source who pointed out to me that only a mean person would say, or sport a bumper sticker that reads, “mean people suck,” because you’d have to be mean to say someone else sucks. I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged cruz jerk, cruz liar, cruz wacky, donald trump, mean people suck, name calling, ted cruz, trump calls cruz liar
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An argument for honesty
Of course, there are an overwhelming number of arguments for the virtue of honesty. But I thought this one should have some extra attention called to it. I live in Seattle, where discussing anything that could potentially, possibly rub someone … Continue reading
