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Let’s Get Real: This Economy Requires New Rules – Part One

Written by Nick Armstrong on September 26, 2011

We need to break a few rules. The old rules no longer apply, because they regulated a system that no longer exists.

Personal Branding makes you a Liar – The Tiger Woods Story

Written by Nick Armstrong on August 27, 2011

“Please attempt to only be 30% of who you really are” is the lesson of Social Media Mullet, today’s article from Jessica Miller-Merrell on Brand-Yourself.com. ”Business in the front and party in the back” is the basic premise, that your social media profiles should consist of 70% business interaction and 30% personal. She cites Tiger Woods [...]

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Many Hiring Managers are Shallow, Daft Pricks

Written by Nick Armstrong on August 7, 2011

Many hiring managers are shallow, daft pricks.If you don’t believe me, then believe Ladders – who surveyed 500 UK senior-level executives. I sometimes come acrossfigures so startling that they raise my blood pressure to unsafe levels, and the UK-based Sirona Says blog run by @AndyHeadworth had something pretty damn startling. According to the 500 surveyed UK executives, how an [...]

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