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Setting Standards

Setting Clear Job Measurement Standards

by Harvey Mackay 

April

28

2011

Prioritize and specify the results expected. Don’t be trapped by misleading measures.  For example, if your primary responsibility is to reorganize your department in the next [ read more...]

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Keeping Your Job

Herculean Labors To Keep You On The Payroll

by Harvey Mackay 

April

26

2011

Make yourself indispensable. There are as many ways to make yourself indispensable as there are reasons for your boss to curyou loose.  It pays to whip up [ read more...]

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Down And Up, We Got Fired!

Successful People Who Were Let Go

by Harvey Mackay 

April

25

2011

Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for lack of ideas. According to Fortune Small Business, David Neeleman was fired by Southwest Airlines with a non-compete [ read more...]

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Advice, Job loss, Job Search, Keeping Your Job

The Continuity Of Contrarians | Best Business Book

by Harvey Mackay 

April

20

2011

You’re smart, or they wouldn’t have hired you.  You’ve read the tea leaves about job and career changes, and you know how frequently they happen.  The [ read more...]

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Job loss, Job Search, Uncategorized

Should You Go Under The Knife After You Get The Ax?

by Harvey Mackay 

April

19

2011

A 2009 article in the Chicago Tribune says, “People who lost stable jobs in 1982 suffered from an immediate 30 percent drop in their earnings, according [ read more...]

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Job loss

Crying Societies or Support Groups?

by Harvey Mackay 

April

18

2011

Losing a job is traumatic, especially if it’s your first time through the meat slicer… and if your financial situation is already a tightrope walk.  Because [ read more...]

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Change your perspective, change your life


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Be careful when offering criticism


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Be careful when offering criticism

Brevity is the soul of communicating


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Brevity is the soul of communicating

Wisdom is Sunlight Of the Soul


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Wisdom is Sunlight Of the Soul

Resourcefulness = “Of Coursefulness”


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Resourcefulness = “Of Coursefulness”

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