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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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It’s a scientific skill she’s honed throughout decades of research and practice, one that has earned her the title of “human lie detector.” She leads workshops at conferences, is sought after by Fortune 500 companies and has facilitated high-level negotiations. She can also code the 10,000 muscle combinations within human expression.

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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

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This skill has expedited the growth of my audience from under a hundred to over two thousand email subscribers in eight months. Books remain one of the best ways to learn a skill. For example, I learned many technical skills in the 1990s by reading “For Dummies” books. Use your library for the amazing tool it is.

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Information Is Cheap, Action Is Expensive

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Get on a bus and negotiate your arrival later. Most of the time, information was confined within thick walls, like libraries or laboratories. Yet, we almost never get on a bus, ready to negotiate our arrival later on. Some of them even have presentation skills. Just be out there somehow. Everybody has it and used it.

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77 Things I Did In 2010

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I thought I lost the skills to hire people, but apparently I didn’t. From the selection phase, going through the interview and negotiation phases, all seemed incredibly familiar. Got Rid Of My Physical Library Of Books. Hired A Programmer Again After 2 Years. Not for me, but it was part of the consulting contract.

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Are You Copy Pasting Your Life?

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So, based on what the stimuli offers, we browse our internal library and pick whatever we think it might be appropriate. GTD one-liners: re-negotiate your commitments constantly Life Device Drivers: What Are They and When You Need To Upgrade Still think productivity means getting things done? Well, I dont.

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. I would rather buy used books on half.com vs driving in Los Angeles traffic to go the library for free books. When you leave your job, other companies will only consider you for jobs of equal or higher pay and skills.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

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All I had to do was to integrate a C library and call some functions. Still undecided if I was going to follow to iAdd project or settle for the simpler one, with the external C library. No more arguing or negotiating, I just started to code it. I managed to compile it, call the functions and log the results. Subscribe to WWDC.

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