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Who’s in your mirror?

By Serra Sewitch-Posey I was 20 years old and on a Greyhound bus from Seattle to Denver, for no real reason other than I had taken a semester off from Chico State and wanted to head East for once. The … Continue reading

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Pandering to a short attention span

Much of the conventional wisdom offered today about how to “engage” audiences, get your content read online, keep attention of conference attendees and not put people to sleep in a class centers around the “fact” that people have short attention … Continue reading

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A fork in the economic road

I work for WD-40 Company as head of human resources.  We have employees in 15 countries.  Every year we do a global compensation analysis to determine what our next fiscal year’s compensation budget is going to be.  We use the … Continue reading

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The secret languages of business

The old saying is that knowledge is power. And it is, of course. Sharing it is also power, but only for those people who know how to create value rather than just have the private knowledge of it. For those … Continue reading

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