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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

Now, imagine you’re the book’s heroine, Dagny Taggart, the world’s best hope against the descending dark age, where productive members of society are drained by leeches who control the levers of government and law. Hard-nosed self-improvement books that preach goals, time management and positive attitudes are invaluable.

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should you put stay-at-home parenting on your resume, I don’t want to train my new manager, and more

Ask a Manager

Job required strong skills in time management, dispute resolution, communication, accounting, procurement, and cost reduction. I work in government, so it’s taken a while to hire even one person to replace them both, and the person they hired (Pam) doesn’t yet have a start date. Feb 2005 – May 2015. Scarecrows?

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should you mention an employee’s smell during a reference check, and more

Ask a Manager

I almost knock people down every time I’m walking around the office. I work in a large office that was converted from a warehouse — we have many areas of cubicles. It just happened again, I was walking to and from the restroom and almost barreled into two people coming out their doors, two different times.