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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

I worked hard at that job and was rewarded with a promotion to Account Manager in 2006, yay! Taking minutes, writing agendas and attending meetings. It was a good first job but it was junior, didn’t pay much and required quite a long commute, I left quickly and went on to work as an Administrator at an Association.

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Are You A Valid Person?

Brilliantly Better

Your partner just had a promotion or a personal breakthrough and you’re supporting him. A picky manager who gives you more and more complex tasks without showing recognition or proposing you for a promotion, that’s a disempowering person. An empowering person would give you more chances for promotion, or recognition.

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How To Make Friends Online

Brilliantly Better

Use social media functions with trust: retweet, like, promote. Most of the time, digital friendships last as long as the underlying hidden agenda’s of both parties last. At least Im telling you my true opinion, not a fake one from a blog owner who wants to promote his blog. Start a dialogue. What can go wrong? This is sad.

2010 40
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3 Life Lessons

Brilliantly Better

After all, you can’t please everybody and everyone has their own agenda. Even soldiers believe they’re serving their countries, when they may only be furthering the agenda of a dictator. I also had no idea that you were a soldier. Great article Dragos. I love how you intertwine your experiences with life lessons.

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The Secret from My 3rd Grade

Brilliantly Better

I have appointments in my agenda and tasks to be done. I think I started to spend more time doing my homework than actually learning and living. Sometimes, I miss the thrill of not knowing what will happen tomorrow. Most of the time, I already know it. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

2010 40
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Should Bloggers Charge for Posts? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Are Men With Pens building a foundation for charging for (parts of) their content or is it just a discussion with no underlying agenda? If you have quality content and the marketing prowess to promote it, then by all means charge. Bengt´s last blog. Readers vote with their dollars. Powered by frugal

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How To Make An Impression in 25 Different Ways

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I always encourage the people who I mentor to get involved in a project, organisation or cause bigger than themselves and today I have decided to encourage you to do the same.

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