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Meeting Strangers: How to Prepare for an Effective Cold Meeting
Ever been nervous meeting a stranger? Nerve no more! Impressing a stranger on first encounter can literally change your life. Interviews are a good example. Others include sales pitches, freelance consultations, partnership and supplier agreements and even dates. They’re a necessity in life. So why not get good? Here are some tips to get you…
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21 Things I LOVE About Travel
Travel is awesome. Here’s why: 1. I don’t have to shave
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Abstract Job Hunting – Using Google Adwords to land your Dream Job
As an ex recruiter I know a thing or two about how to get a job. I’ve seen a whole bunch of crazy techniques people have used to land themselves their dream job. Some pretty cool, like creative web-pages, some completly idiotic like calling everyday saying “I have job”. I came across this video the…
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Mexican Story – Four Hour Work Week
This story kicks ass. Its from the Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. I don’t think the lifestyle is for me I’d probably get bored, but the story has stuck with me. The perspective is the complete opposite to my capitalist mindset so I like to think it brings me closer to the middle…
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A Simple Tip for Socialising while Travelling Solo (or How to Have Mind Blowing Nights Out when you’re on your Own)
Travelling alone is one of the best things I’ve ever done. It opened my eyes to both the external world and internally into my own personality and mind. One of the changes I had to quickly adapt to was that if I wanted any type of human interaction I had to go out and find…
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Outsourcing Revisited – What I’ve Learned Since 2010
* caveat – this post is from the perspective of a small business owner who does not have full time managers and human resource specialists. Someone who doesn’t have systems and processes in place to manage large collaborative teams on long term projects. This is for someone managing a small team with limited resources and need work done in the most efficient and…
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Discovery vs Debate – A Tale of Two Conversationalists
Have you ever gotten into a discussion with someone and had it feel like a wonderful journey of discovery, where both of you were bouncing off each other, teaching, learning and debating yes; but growing together with the conversation? What about a discussion where right off the bat it gets straight into a heated debate,…