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3 Job Questions You Must Ask

Lots of folks, both employees and friends, have come to me over the years to ask my thinking about a position they were considering. And no, you shouldn’t find it strange that people who worked for me asked my thinking on this – I encouraged it as part of the open communication I tried to foster. They’re co-workers, not slaves! In any event, there were always 3 questions I told them they needed to answer and IN THIS ORDER. Continue reading

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Woodstock

Yasgur's Farm

I was at Camp Greylock 40 years ago when a half million of “you kids” (Max Yasgur‘s term) got together and showed the world that things were changing yet again. Those of you old enough will remember how turbulent and divisive a time it was. Dr. King and Bobby and been killed, Vietnam was raging, there were frequent violent demonstrations in the streets of our country. But for three days, were saw what was possible with an open mind. Continue reading

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Good question!

I’m sure this has been around the web a few times. Maybe you got it in an email from someone, maybe you read it on another blog.  It’s a true story.  InWould you listen? fact, according to Snopes, The Washington Post won a Pulitzer in the feature writing category for Gene Weingarten‘s April 2007 story about this experiment. If you’ve read it before or heard about it, I apologize. No, strike that. Read it again. It’s a great question! Continue reading

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