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How to Deal with Non-Negotiable Unrealistic Expectations

Eat Your Career

While it’s our duty to clarify and push back on such expectations, we may face situations where that impossibly high bar is simply non-negotiable. (By By the way, if you need help learning how to professionally pushback, I have an entire webinar on the topic of “Setting Limits and Managing Expectations” in the Career Success Library.)

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

Success

She leads workshops at conferences, is sought after by Fortune 500 companies and has facilitated high-level negotiations. She did much of her training on her own before getting certified—and a lot of that training took place outside of the United States. She can also code the 10,000 muscle combinations within human expression.

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Menopause gift bags and monitoring toilet breaks: why are employers getting menopause support so wrong?

Workplace Insight

In response to the criticism of its gift bag initiative, Avanti said that they had introduced a number of menopause support measures which included guidance for colleagues and managers, creating a support group for staff to allow them to share their experiences and setting up a specialist library giving staff free access to books on the subject.

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Information Is Cheap, Action Is Expensive

Brilliantly Better

Get on that train and figure it out while you’re on it. 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. And then went on with our lives.

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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. If you think about it, jobs come and go, through no fault of your own, but family, friends, and loved ones are a a bit more permanent.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

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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Are You Copy Pasting Your Life?

Brilliantly Better

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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