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Career Advice: Measure Twice, Cut Once

By: Mick, June 20th, 2007

I had heard this little bit of wisdom many times before, but I was reminded of it today as I read through the latest post at the Blog at SlowDownNow.org. The post is entitled Slow is Not Lazy and is a good example of the type of life and career insights offered at SlowDownNow.org. The […]

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Now I Understand Why Paris Hilton is Famous

By: Mick, May 3rd, 2007

I should be beaten for reading the article, but I’m tired and my defenses are weakening. When I saw something about Prosecutors recommending jail for Paris Hilton, I couldn’t resist. And I don’t have much of a point except to point out the seemingly serious journalistic explanation of exactly who Paris Hilton is.
Here is the […]

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We Should Learn to Read the Writing on the Wall

By: Mick, April 17th, 2007

This is good advice for all of us and is applicable to every employment and life situation that I can think of. Over the past few weeks, I have had an opportunity to witness first-hand what can happen when individuals fail to see what appears to be obvious to the people around them. The consequences […]

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Never Pretend to be an Expert

By: Mick, March 15th, 2007

Saw an interesting post at the Career Hub about the abundance of “experts” in the employment field. Funny, because it seems that everywhere I go, I’m running into experts, on everything from resumes to interviews to sourcing. And there are plenty of people out there that are certainly experts relative to my knowledge of these […]

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An Inconvenient Truth: Success Requires Hard Work

By: Mick, January 4th, 2007

As some of you may be aware, Ben Stein writes a piece entitled How Not to Ruin Your Life for Yahoo! Finance. It’s a play on the title of his book, How to Ruin Your Life, that seems to have been a pretty successful publication for him, given the number of positive reviews I browsed […]

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