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Sometimes we sign a crazy pledge or strike a devil’s bargain because it seemed like such a good idea at the time.
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Does a promise made in the heat of stupidity deserve to be kept? Sometimes we sign a crazy pledge or strike a devil’s bargain because it seemed like such a good idea at the time. And then we wake up to reality. Do we now have enough sense to snap out of it? Or are we so pigheaded that we become a rat king?
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Call me slow, but after 11 years in the United States of America, after 11 Memorial Days, I finally get it. I think.
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Nonsense At Work: Paradox at the top
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The more successful you are at your job, the higher you will climb on the corporate ladder. The higher you climb, the bigger your carpet and the fatter your wallet.
Nonsense At Work: Successful reflection
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Do successful people spend time on daily reflection?
Nonsense At Work: Create clatter for creativity
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Nonsense At Work: Be easy on my mind
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Are you easy to be remembered or easy to be forgotten?
Nonsense At Work: Have a nice checkout
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Two listeners attacked me for my comments recently about the body at the checkout counter with no one home. I am cowardly enough to admit that they are right in attacking me.
Nonsense At Work: Divorce at work
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How do you approach your job, like a marriage or like a casual relationship?
Nonsense At Work: How to stop networking working
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Here is my golden rule for using networking to develop your business. Don’t waste my time by taking your time.
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Does a promise made in the heat of stupidity deserve to be kept? Sometimes we sign a crazy pledge or strike a devil’s bargain because it seemed like such a good idea at the time. And then we wake up to reality. Do we now have enough sense to snap out of it? Or are we so pigheaded that we become a rat king?
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