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The Job Shop
- Mar 8, 2018
- 2 min
4 Steps to Following Your Dreams (Without Falling Flat on Your Face)
Author: Anne Fisher
Source: Monster Two years out of an Ivy League college, 24-year-old Mike Lewis snagged a high-paying job with Bain Capital Ventures, a finance arm of prestigious consulting firm Bain & Co. He knew he should be happy. After all, only a tiny percentage of candidates for jobs like this are chosen, so getting hired at the firm, he says, was “like winning the lottery.” Yet, an avid and skilled squash player, Lewis found himself spending more and more time “star
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The Job Shop
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min
What is a Personal Philosophy, and How Do You Live in Alignment with Yours?
People talk about “becoming” and “being” your best. What is someone’s “best?” Seriously, what is your “best?” It’s incredibly difficult to get your arms around it, partly because it’s a moving target that is influenced by dynamically moving components: your current skill, your world-view and the environmental conditions. After spending time with so many world-leading performers – many are uncommonly relentless toward pursuing their “best.” And — there’s a more stable componen
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The Job Shop
- Feb 22, 2018
- 3 min
Advice on Career, Life, and Travel from Amazing Women
It’s a steamy morning at Mayakoba resort on the Riviera Maya of Mexico, and Suzanne Cohen, VP of Luxury Brands for the Americas at Marriott International, has just finished a presentation on brand strategy at the ILTM Americas conference — an annual gathering of luxury travel advisors and industry professionals. It’s a glamorous setting, for sure, but Cohen has only flown in for a series of meetings. Right before this, she was in Los Cabos doing a site inspection at the soon-
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The Job Shop
- May 5, 2016
- 4 min
11 Useful Tricks to Improve Your Creative Thinking
In this very competitive society we live in, the need for creative thinking is now more in demand more than ever. Both the corporate and organizational landscape require creativity from their staff and employees, may it be to come up with superbly packaged products, enticing marketing campaigns, innovation breakthroughs or as trivial as solving daily challenges in the workplace. Creative thinking is not for the artistic people alone. People who work in other fields need to fi
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The Job Shop
- Apr 15, 2016
- 7 min
Weekend Planner: April 15
Every Friday we put together a list of the weekend events we think look most interesting and provide them here. Keep in mind there is always a lot more going on, and all it takes is a little digging to find something that will be the perfect activity for you. Click on any of the event titles for a link to the event. Friday, April 15 Family Movie Night at the Presidio: The Sandlot Presidio Main Post, San Francisco 5:30 PM, All Ages Free Bring your family and enjoy a free famil
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The Job Shop
- Jan 1, 2016
- 6 min
Weekend Planner: January 1
Every Friday we put together a list of the weekend events we think look most interesting and provide them here. Keep in mind there is always a lot more going on, and all it takes is a little digging to find something that will be the perfect activity for you. Click on any of the event titles for a link to the event. Friday, January 1 Joke or Get Off The Stage The Washington Inn, Oakland 8 PM, All Ages $20 Joke or Get Off The Stage – New Year’s special show puts past Comedy Oa
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