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• Recruitment Spotlight: Don’t Hire Anyone without Doing This First

  Continuing our summer focus on recruitment and HR issues , how many times has your group tried to hire someone, only to end up arguing over candidates because you don’t all agree about what the new person is there to do? Hiring smart means doing some Read More... Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, HR Issues, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills

• Fight Back Against Out of Sight, Out of Mind

  Out of sight, out of mind is one of my least favorite qualities of human nature. I can’t tell you the number of relationships, which I thought were real and lasting, that went bust because I used to see the person every day at school or work and then Read More... Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Networking, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Troubleshooting, Work

• New Job? Don’t Be a Bulldozer

  During recent talks I’ve given about young people entering the workplace, a new issue has been cropping up. “These twenty-somethings come in and expect to take over the company right away,” older managers complain. Whether you’re twenty-two or sixty-two, Read More... Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Communication, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Professionalism

• Your Boss Has Needs Too

  Thanks to Seth Godin and ExecPundit for sharing this insightful piece titled “Note from Boss to Employees.” Some of the highlights: I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to Read More... Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 12:49 PM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Business, Office Politics, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Daily Life, Work

• You Don't Always Owe the World Your Two Cents

  Twice or three times this week, I’ve heard or read the same advice: “you don’t always have to put in your two cents.” I decided to take the multiple reminders as a sign that I should blog about it. It’s true that I’m always saying that you should do everything Read More... Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Daily Life, Work