Dealing with financial products can be very confusing and stressful, but there are some products that you should absolutely stay away from for the sake of your financial health. From wisebread.com read more
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This post from blogger Adam Wright is a straightforward How-To which shows you step by step how to utilize Outlook’s rules to organize your emails. Following Adam’s instructions, I created several rules which enable me to send certain message types into several “Favorite” folders (see screenshot on the next page; these folders appear at the [...]
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After decades of conducting interviews I’m no longer capable of asking interviewees questions like, “What’s your biggest weakness?” and “What are your three greatest strengths?” Asking questions like these is like asking a Presidential candidate if he or she will “add jobs” – the questions are so hackneyed that even the most inexperienced candidates anticipate [...]
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January 2009 edit: the video described below is no longer available due to copyright issues; this is the original music video for the song. One of the things I want to do with this blog is share things that I really enjoy, and this is is a good example. Carlos Santana recorded a couple of [...]
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Featured in the March issue of Fast Company (p65) Eyejot enables anyone with a web camera to send (and receive) video messages in a matter of seconds. There’s nothing to install, and Eyejot works with all popular Web browsers on Windows and Mac OS X. It does require that you have the Adobe Flash Player [...]
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If you ever present ideas to others – and who doesn’t? – you really ought to read Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick. The book explores why some ideas “stick” – are vivid, memorable and resonate with their audience. The authors craft a simple formula for giving ideas “stickiness,” and provide numerous examples and [...]
If you’re charged with monitoring your competitors or if you need to research a specific company perhaps for an upcoming job interview, there are innumerable resources available on the internet. I’ve been involved with business and competitive intelligence for the last 15 or so years, and what follows is a list of some of the [...]
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