Posts Tagged ‘ job ’

Week two of my brand-new job is coming up tomorrow. Here’s what I need: Office space in Richmond, BC, for 10-20 people Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Payroll services, ideally all from one provider Developers, developers, developers, developers (Just channeling Steve Ballmer in text here … what I need are Delphi developers, including at least one...
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Today is the day. While I’m on-call for another week, and will return to the office next Friday for a cake&coffee with the team, I’m leaving the company that I’ve been with for 15 years (give or take a month). That’s 15 years through 7 different jobs: Research Assistant Staff Writer Marketing Project Manager...
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As someone who’s recently been promoted, I need to be extremely self-aware about what I’m doing, what I’m saying, why, how, and how others are perceiving it. As Bob Sutton quotes Dacher Keltner’s The Power Paradox, positional power is a very dangerous thing: He argues that — contrary to the claims of many experts,...
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I had lunch with a colleague today. He’s young, smart, and creative … and in a job where he cannot possibly exercise all his talents. (Kind of the way I like to think of myself!) But he has a good-paying job. And a mortgage. And 3 kids. And a wife. So it’s hard. Hard...
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