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When A.B. Farquhar, a Pennsylvania businessman, mentioned to Carnegie that he was always sure to be in his office by “seven in the morning”, Carnegie remarked laughingly: “You must be a lazy man if it takes you ten hours to do a day’s work.” “’What I do,’ he said, ‘is to get good men, and [...]

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When you receive your paycheck each time, do you check and make sure it’s correct? I know some folks who never bothers to check — their paychecks are automatically deposited into their bank accounts. But, let me tell you that I have run into all sorts of payroll errors throughout my career: Travel expenses were [...]

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Some people simply dismiss self-help books. They believe in their own abilities. Some people turn to religion and God. They ask God for wisdom and help. some people constantly read self-helps books and look for ways to improve themselves. I’m curious — let’s pick one area of self-help, Time Management — do the Time Management [...]

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This blog is powered by WordPress. I composed most of the posts using the offline blog editor Microsoft Live Writer. I have run into several “pain points”. Below is my wish list of blogging software improvements: This blog receives hundreds of comments each day. A lot of these comments are spams. I would like to [...]

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You might wonder why I haven’t made any post in a few days  — that’s because I took a two-day family vacation to the beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. I would like to share a few things with you about our trip. In case you haven’t heard about 4HWW — it stands for 4-Hour Work Week [...]

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Almost everyone I know who got laid off was notified and let go on the same day. Some of them even didn’t get a chance to send out a farewell email. Do you think they had enough time to back up their personal data on their work computers, save contact addresses, and remove personal/private data [...]

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Right before everyone left for Christmas, I had a colleague who was working furiously to get all of his expense reports done. One of his expense reports was for a business trip to Japan he took in July, 2008. That’s 5 months ago! The total amount was more than $15,000. And this is not a [...]

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A few readers asked me about the software, technology infrastructure, and cost for starting and running this blog. Here is a step-by-step replay of how this blog was started: Domain name: I registered the domain name at www.namecheap.com. Cost: $8.41/year. Blog software: WordPress. Cost: Free.  Web hosting company: I’ve been using Pair Network hosting for [...]

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When I was at my first job fresh out of college, I loved to attend conferences. I got a chance to travel for free, attend exhibits and educational sessions all days long, and go to parties at nights — what a great combination for a single guy! Besides being a single with no family obligation, [...]

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I think LinkedIn is one of the most powerful online career tools. There are so many ways you can use LinkedIn besides making professional contacts. Find out company’s attrition rate : I use LinkedIn to search for people who have worked at a particular company, when they started, and when they left. It gives me [...]

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