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It’s more than just capability
Hiring is never straightforward. Time is spent fine-tuning job descriptions and ironing out contractual details. The focus is usually on qualifications—degrees, years of experience, technical skills. But what’s often missing from the equation is clarity: how well someone knows themselves, how they make decisions, how grounded they are in their values. Someone may tick every…
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Why should you be hired, if no one understands what you do?
Most service providers have such a low level of self-belief, they will jump to answer the “why should we hire you” question as if they were on trial. If this is you, understand that the work to do is not to figure out how to answer “what do you do?” The work is to figure…
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I will not die an unlived life…
The title of this post is the first line of a beautiful poem by Dawn Markova. I saw it in an Oprah Magazine and I typed and printed it out as a reminder that every day that I am gifted – must be lived. Yet for years I tried to live a carefully scripted life.…

