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Achieving Your Potential: The Devils Within

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There’s something special about doing what you like most.  Energy never fades away when you enjoy what you are doing while you experience a limitless desire to constantly know and learn more. Freddie Mercury and Jimmy Hendrix were bonded to music; Einstein was devoted to physics and cosmology; Hemingway to literature, Maradona was one with [...]

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The Risk of Having a Team of Robots: Delegating vs Monopolizing Work

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Do you want a team that is able to think or a horde of cyborgs who follow blindly your commands? That is the question that I asked myself today, already knowing the answer  (a waste of mental energy). There’s people who feel comfortable delegating work unto others and there are those who don’t. Usually those [...]

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Understanding Your Job – Chapter Two

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We all occupy roles in our lives. We are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters. We grow up performing these roles. You are born a son, you build relationships with peers, maybe you’ll have children to then become a grandfather or grandmother. And so, these roles get hard-wired into our minds. We learn how to [...]

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Understanding your job. Chapter One

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I wanted to write a series of posts that you could apply to your job. Something you can relate to wether you are a salesman, doctor, telemarketer or a store manager. Do any of those professions have anything in common with each other? Yes, no. Doesn’t matter. My goal is to give you some tools [...]

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How to find motivation when it’s gone on vacations

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Ever felt at work that you are stuck in first or second gear or you are on those days when your motivation is idling. Well, it’s normal. No one can sustain 290 (give or take) days a year at full throttle. If you can you are either alien, on crack cocaine or you are my [...]

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At work don’t give orders. Empower!

I learnt something today. Yesterday I had a meeting with the director of my program in which we agreed to make some minor changes in my unit. Today I broke the news to my team and they weren’t welcome very cheerfully, especially by veteran staff. Why? Obviously (now that I have time to think), people doesn’t [...]

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How to know if you are being lied in a job interview. And how to counter it

We get to interview all kind of people. Sometimes we have to interview too many in a too short period of time. Sometimes we only have one chance to talk to that person before making conclusions. That’s why it’s important to make the most out of that time. The person in front of you has [...]

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Tackling new projects, thinking out of the box

Every time we have to start a new project or venture we are faced with one of the most difficult decisions to make: How do we start? Where do we start? Some years ago, a good boss of mine told me: “don’t try to reinvent the wheel, recycle and optimize what you already have”. I’m [...]

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