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Good simple stuff.

I find the vast majority of articles found on the web on the topic of negotiation to be shallow at best, and misguided and lacking in real w...

Source:  http://qz.com/356612/you-are-almost-certainly-starting-salary-negotiations-wrong/ First, a range shapes expectations about an acc...

Simply put, compassion makes the difference between understanding and caring. It’s the kind of love that a parent has for a child. Cultivati...

LINKED IN ARTICLE. In my view, one of life’s greatest ambitions is to remain authentic. Never underestimate the many circumstances, howev...

How to be successful in a corporate environment? Act as if you are your boss' intern (ie. work you ass off to make his life easy, and ...

HBR article, by Greg McKeown. Original is here:  https://hbr.org/2015/01/99-of-networking-is-a-waste-of-time Building the right relations...

Original article is  here. So simple yet so powerful. I've been living by these rules for a while now and... it's basically a new ...

When It's Time To Walk Away, by  Brian de Haaff https://www.linkedin.com/ If you are reading this -- you probably are not the typ...

Two Kinds of People You Should Never Negotiate With by Judith White http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/two-kinds-of-people-you-should-never-nego...

Culture from Reed Hastings This presentation has gone viral and created a huge amount of discussion on the web. Some love it, some ...

So I just read another interesting post on the HBR blog:   "The fine art of tough love" by Joanne Lipman The 5 concepts the auth...

Great article by an HBR blogger True in work and life. When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change by Dani...

32 years. It will have taken me 32 years for these two specific "naivety barriers" to fall. It's strange how through friends...

Kevin Ryan has hired--and fired--plenty of people in his day. Here, the Gilt CEO explains why not firing an employee can cause a bad situati...

"Any man that leads, that does something, has against him those that would want to do the same, those that would do exactly the opposit...

So, You Want to be an Entrepreneur By KELLY K. SPORS Thinking about starting a business? Make sure you're cut out for it first. In this ...

Harmonious vs obsessive work passion, by Scott Bary Kaufman . Yet another original point of view on a work related myth by HBR, backed by...

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success | Video on TED.com

Interesting and thought provoking HBR article . I'll take away three main points from it: - "how many mediocre people would it take...

POST IN PROGRESS / WORK IN PROGRESS. I'm posting this as food for thoughts only. If I overcome my bloglazyness spell, I'll be finali...

I've been having a great couple of weeks: deals were signed, new potential ones are moving forward, great constructive meetings were hel...

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca

I just stumbled on a "London School of Economics / Peking University summer school" webpage that freely distributes entrepreneursh...

Nearly 2 months since my last post? Already? Wow time flies, especially when that time is spent plotting, fighting, manoeuvring in "hig...

There's 2 version of a same quote available on the Internet: "It's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look ...

I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of t...

I mean seriously, where are all the old people in corporate life? Ok so you see a few at the top, but it's not like that sample is stati...

Similarly to most of the topics I discuss, asking for a raise has been widely covered by gazillions of experts on the web or in the press. S...