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10 Good Reasons To Turn Down A Job
Should you take every job that comes your way? No. Here are 10 good reasons to turn down a job.

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Lesson #5: Dogged Persistence Makes the Best Pitchman
Popeil was just sixteen years old when he began selling his father’s products on Chicago’s infamous Maxwell Street. His workday would start at 5 a.m., when he used to arrive at the market and spend one hour cutting and preparing fifty pounds each of onions, cabbages, and carrots, and more than one hundred pounds of potatoes each day. After that, Popeil would demonstrate and try to sell his products from 6 a.m. until 4 p.m. On average during his 11-hour work days, Popeil would bring in $500 on a daily basis.

Black Gold. Worth More than Real Gold?
Let’s face it: gold is very pretty. It makes for great eye-candy when dangling from some starlet’s neck, usually holding some other equally beautiful gem or precious stone. But what’s it really worth?
Changing Your Ideas about Employee Motivation
Most managers believe that the best way to motivate employees is with external rewards-money, perks, and other dangling carrots to get people enthusiastic about their job. But according to Daniel Pink in his new book “Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates US” motivation is created internally not externally and depends on peoples ability to make decisions about their own lives, to learn and create new things, and to better themselves.
Ooooh! Another Bright Shiny Object!
If you are someone who has a business, you can be, rather you ARE, inundated with mail, email, Facebook and Twitter announcements, etc. about the “best,” the “newest,” and the “be-all-end-all” programs that will answer all your business needs. There always is a new bright shiny object dangling in front of you.
Undervalued? Leverage the Skills You Already Have!
Every now and then I get a phone call or an email from a friend of mine who has run her own consulting company for years and has achieved some great success in her industry. She has authored a book, is an international public speaker, and is sought after to provide her expertise as a consultant to professionals throughout North America. Last week I got an email from her, and she sounded very frustrated. She said, “I’ve been so busy with my business…working in it and doing it for others, that I’m getting tired. Same old story.” And it IS the same old story. She has called or written me with that same message at least twice a year for the last four years. This time she added, “You always give me something to think about. That carrot is always dangling in front of me...
How Good do You Feel?
Sitting on the side of my pool with my feet dangling in the water, bright blue sky over head with whispy white clouds like tiny puffs of smoke drifting along; the sun making my skin feel alive and tingling. As I peel an orange picked off of my tree, I think to myself “How bad is life?” On a scale of things, between this and sitting hours on the M25, yeah not much competition really!

Reward and Recognition Pathways and Pitfalls
Don't use money to try and shape behavior or boost performance. It rarely works. If you think it has in the past, what happened when you took the carrot away? No doubt, performance slipped and you were left with stimulus-dependent people looking for progressively bigger carrots. Unless people feel compensation and bonus systems are a major block, leave them alone.

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