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‘Power Doesn’t Come from a Title’

Success

Already a successful Xerox salesman in his early 20s (his secret: he worked through lunch, catching elusive decision-makers eating at their desks), the company sent McDermott to Puerto Rico when he was 29 to “turn around its failing business,” according to a Harvard Business Review article by McDermott. I wouldn’t miss it,” he says.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I then review the list and organize it by priority and then copy and paste it into a “touch base” email I send to my CEO. Pick the ones that have the best reviews and have been recently published. Now that I think about it, when I was interviewed by the other assistant, they were wearing athletic attire and I was wearing a suit!

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