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On Your Mark Get Set — Recharge

Success

In his book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance , Schwartz and co-authors Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy, Ph.D., Schwartz, founder and CEO of The Energy Project, advocates for a work style based on a series of sprints rather than a marathon.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” “She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’”

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Do This When Procrastination Strikes

Executive Assistant Breakthrough

I’d be sprinting to drop it off in time at 9 am before the last chime of the bell. Although he knew I could get an enormous amount of s**t done, he had my number early on as a procrastinator at heart. The paper would commence somewhere around 2 am. Fear can be sneaky. After it was already 100% done!

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Treating Job Candidates Badly: Why.

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Thursday, July 29, 2010 Treating Job Candidates Badly: Why It May Come Back to Haunt Employers Everyone has a bad interview story. Eight days later I had a job with a prestigious employer.

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Blackberry Pearl Flip Makes Me Flip

The Marq

I didn’t purchase it until Sprint of 2009. What I Don’t Like I believe the phone was designed with the light non-business user in mind. The character display lag doesn’t help much in assuring me that I, in fact, have pressed a button. So, I have to very distinctly press each character. Come on now!

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How To Play The Game Of Blogging

Brilliantly Better

A few months ago, the blog was moved to another hosting facility, outside Romania (in United States, I’m happily using the cloud hosting package of RackSpace). That was another lesson I had to learn the hard way: the physical location of your hosting company influences your ranking in search engines (at least Google). And that requires time.

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5 Ways To Work Smarter | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

www.pickthebrain.com

PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement Home Articles About Contact Archives 90 days 5 Ways To Work Smarter Written by Brett Hagberg - 12 Comments Categories: productivity tips , self improvement As much as workaholics like to claim that they’re superior because they work more hours, don’t listen to them.

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