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Harvey Mackay

Most of us work with relatively sane people who try to behave during the eight hours or so that they're in the office.  And we attempt to do the right things and avoid offending our co-workers as well.   But some people just don't get it.  As part of a survey on workplace etiquette, the Robert Half organization asked employees to share some of the most outrageous
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Souvik Sarkar

In the beginning of every year, we get very excited about our New Year resolutions. A few examples are, "I will avoid junk food", "I will be disciplined", "I will read everyday", "I will watch less TV", and so on and so forth.   As time passes by, we realize that most of our resolutions are failing.
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Harvey Mackay

We can learn a lot about responsibility from bugs.The ant works hard in the sweltering heat all summer long, building its house and loading up on supplies for the winter.The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.  Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
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Narendra Bhatta

Somethings are better learnt, when you learn it your way. Beating off track is often not the rule of the game. But when one does break it, VOILA.... we have a new game to play, a new domain to tread, new rules to form.
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Narendra Bhatta

Intellectual Property Rights is all about acquiring and enforcing Rights granted to a person in respect of a property created out of the Intellect. The property created can be a work of art, literature, music apart from various manifestations of Intellect. This property which is a work of art, literature, music is normally categorised as a COPYRIGHT.
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ianfaria

As we proceed to life, we normally have a pretty good understanding that we may not be able to see too far into the future, nor are we able to see too much into the present. Our horizon determines what we see... and also how seeing more...
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Harvey Mackay

Did you resolve to get more organized in 2012?  How is that working out for you so far?   Managing your time is perhaps the most difficult organizational challenge you face.  You can always declutter your desk, rearrange your workspace, or get your files in order.  But getting control of your schedule is one of those grand intentions that suffer because it involves
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Daniel H Pink

Dedicated readers know that I’ve written a fair bit on how contingent rewards, including money, can go awry in all sorts of ways — resulting in poorer performance, diminished creativity, reduced interest in tasks that were once intrinsically interesting, and so on. But can the very idea of money also affect our behavior? In an
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Seth Godin

Let me guess: check the incoming. Check email or traffic stats or messages from your boss. Check the tweets you follow or the FB status of friends. You've just surrendered not only a block of time but your freshest, best...
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Harvey Mackay

For years I have been promoting the concept that you must "humanize your selling strategy."  The short explanation for this plan is that you must match your sales approach to the individual or company who will buy your product.  How will it benefit them?     Let's use envelopes as an example.

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