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The Art Of Dodging Any Question

There's a specific art to dodging a question. Non-sequiturs can be very easy to catch, so if you're stuck in an interview, or participating in a debate in order to become the next President of the...

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Employees Are More Determined Than Ever To Get Raises In 2013

The new year brings new resolutions — and employees want a raise in 2013.According to a survey released today by Glassdoor, 32 percent of workers surveyed are focused on getting a raise and 24 percent...

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DR. OZ: Here's How To Avoid Making Bad Decisions

We have a limited amount of decision-making chi, says Dr. Oz, a talk show host and a heart surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.Once we exhaust the finite number of decisions we can make each day,...

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This Is The Thing The World's Amateur Psychologists Get Dead Wrong

Psychology is one of those fields where just about everyone feels as if they have some insight. In medicine or physics, we are more likely to rely on the experts. But for whatever reason we feel that...

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CHART: Why Media Companies Are Slow To Adopt E-Commerce

Media companies know they need to add e-commerce to their business model to survive. They just don’t have enough money or in-house expertise to create an entirely new e-commerce division, according to...

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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's Two-Part Recipe For Success

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner was constantly told by his dad that he could do anything he put his mind to.While this advice turn out to be true in Weiner's case, he says that willing one's way into a career...

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14 Tips For Learning Any Skill Incredibly Fast

Tim Ferriss' new book, "The 4-Hour Chef" is definitely about learning to cook rapidly. But it's also about learning just about any skill.He writes:"Whether you want to learn how to speak a new language...

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How Dr. Oz Stumbled Into An Opportunity Of A Lifetime

Before becoming a household name, Dr. Mehmet Oz kept busy with building a career as a heart surgeon in New York.In 1996, he gave Yankee Manager Joe Torre's brother, Frank, a heart transplant.The team...

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You Have No Choice But To Look Up To These 17 Tech Execs

If you're familiar with Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink", then you're aware of the Warren Harding Effect, which suggests most powerful people are tall, which gives them an advantage in business.Gladwell...

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There's Been A Staggering Collapse In Small Business Optimism Since The Election

Pretty intense Gallup poll showing massive collapse in small-business owner attitudes since the election. Note that small business owners tend to be pretty conservative, and were very anti Obama (HT:...

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8 Ways To Design A Beautiful, Useful App, From The Co-Founder Of Instagram

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger recently spoke at a 500Startups event. He shared eight ways to design a beautiful, functional app.Here are his tips via The Next Web's Ken Yeung, who was there taking...

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How One Guy Gamified His Google Interview And Won The Job

Former Lot18 employee Jon Guerrera is big into gamification.  So when Google offered him the chance to interview for an Associate Account Strategist position, he decided to make the process more fun.He...

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Kleiner's Mike Abbott: Venture Capital Must Change

Mike Abbott, the brilliant engineering leader who turned Twitter around, has been a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins for about a year now. And he's learned a lot.He's now determined to change the...

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The 6 Most Important Lessons To Learn From Losing

The lessons you learn from losing can change the rest of your life.One of my first sales jobs was selling energy-efficient sun-rooms to homeowners in Northern Virginia. It was a sales job that paid...

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Why Startups Are Paying Employees Less Than Ever

Sure, start-ups are creating jobs, but turns out those jobs are paying much less than their big business counterparts. And the gap is getting bigger.It's no secret that start-ups can't hand out the fat...

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There Is A Fatal Flaw In Arsenal's Philosophy

The problem with having a philosophy is that, when it is clearly not working, there comes a time when you have to recognise the fatal flaw and for Arsène Wenger and Arsenal, that time is now.We have...

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France Is No Longer A Sexy Place For Entrepreneurs

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Jean-Emile Rosenblum, a 34-year-old e-commerce businessman, is quitting France.With President Francois Hollande’s government readying a vote this month on its first annual budget...

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13 Of The Greatest Idea Hunters Ever

Stop thinking so hard and start hunting for good ideas.That's the message of The Idea Hunters, a 2011 book by Andy Boynton of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and Bill Fischer of IMD...

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Why Greater Skill Leads To More Luck

This is an excerpt from The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing and is published under Creative Commons licensing.Variation in batting averages must decrease...

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Tour The $40 Million Mountain 4 Entrepreneurs Just Bought So They Could Have...

Summit Series is a popular, annual startup conference among a younger set of entrepreneurs who like to work hard and play hard.It was founded in 2008 by four 20-somethings, and the first gathering had...

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