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Style and Presentation

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Last week’s article about how to optimize LinkedIn (from people who do) got me thinking a lot about connections, not only in the literal LinkedIn sense (your “friends” on the [...]

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Guest Post by Justin Honaman is a strategic business process and technology director for Coca-Cola and author of the new book Make It Happen! Live Out Your Personal Brand which provides strategies for authentic leadership and creating your personal brand.
Me and My Personal Brand!

It’s become a hot topic. A trend. Now more than [...]

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Can you identify what your ‘commonsense solutions’ are?
As I was catching up on my news last night, I caught some of an interview with Sarah Palin.  While the 30 minute segment covered a range of topics, one thing in particular stood out to me:
“Commonsense solutions.”
Regardless of what the interview leader ask, somehow the former governor [...]

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This morning I came across an interesting article called Dress for Success by Scott Reeves on Forbes.com.  As you would imagine, the article mainly focuses on how to appropriately dress for an office environment, especially if you are unsure what the dress code is.  Yet through all the comments about button down shirts and knee [...]

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I sat down at my computer today to do some writing and ended up surfing the net distractedly for over two hours.  When I checked the clock and realized how much time had passed without making a dent in my to-do list, I was horrified.  What was the trouble? I’d had my coffee, I wasn’t [...]

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