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https://ryanholiday.net/if-you-want-to-be-smart-you-must-do-this/ There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude…
https://hbr.org/2019/05/what-good-feedback-really-looks-like by May 13, 2019 Tim Robberts/Getty Images Summary. Feedback — both positive and negative — is essential to helping managers enhance their best qualities and address their worst so…
https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/beware-the-backstabbing-coworkers-hot-jobs From bullies to gossipmongers, this is how to handle peers who want to make you look bad. Dawn Papandrea, Monster contributor Ever suspect that one of your co-workers is…
The ancients were fond of an expression: Character is fate. It means that character is deterministic, that who you are determines what you will do. Self-discipline is one of those…
https://mannhowie.com/ikea-effect Howie Mann on Sep 3, 20226 minute read The IKEA effect describes how people come to overvalue things in which they have successfully put effort into. This cognitive bias…
Structuring deals is not difficult. Having multiple types of deals allows choices and makes closing prospects a win-win for both parties. Here are 8 types of deals to get you…
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/odourless-utopia In Europe, the war bulletins come not just from Ukraine, but also from the climate front. The French government has cracked down on water use, banning watering lawns and…
https://www.managertoday.com.tw/books/view/65433? 人生是由一連串的選擇累積而成，不過現實狀況下當我們有求於人時，選擇權卻多半掌握在他人手上，所以要抓住好運，不是光靠自己苦幹實幹就能成事，也該學習如何說服他人做出對我有利的決定。像我這樣先天沒有好運的人，該如何透過溝通技巧讓別人願意幫助自己，把運氣拉到身邊？以下是我的實戰經驗： 第一、站在對方的角度思考。說服他人時，最重要的是找出「誰是決策者」。如前所述，許多時候決定權在他人手上，像是餐飲店的生意受顧客影響，求職者是否被錄取則決定在面試官的手中。如果一位求職者對面試官說「我如果得到這個職缺，一定會對公司鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已」，這句話不是站在面試官的角度，而是站在求職者自己的角度說的。面試官想知道的不是「這個人多迫切想進公司」，而是「這個人進了公司後能帶來多少成績」。延伸閱讀：「你這輩子勞碌命、沒貴人」謝謝算命師的這句話，讓我學會一件事
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-intellectual-property-is-nonsensical-and-pernicious?fbclid=IwAR3_jYNRyDovqVpvO6LJpM0mHygvSe03bGwpWAt35TrQ4pnAXOqtaMD2jJw Copyrights, patents and trademarks are all important, but the term ‘intellectual property’ is nonsensical and pernicious The grand term ‘intellectual property’ covers a lot of ground: the software that…
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/feed-your-individuality-on-non-regurgitated-food/ Have you ever read an ancient, sacred, or philosophical text — something dense, difficult, or foreign — that was heavily footnoted? At first, you tried to figure out the…