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Serious skills part 2

Ann E W Stone says that she once read a book that changed the course of her career, and her life.   She learnt that people make snap decisions on others based on ‘signals; and that it was within one’s power to manage those signals.  The first part of her transformation was to understand the operating [...]

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Serious skills part 1

On Tuesday I trudged to the Chamber of Commerce to listen to a 90-minute talk by Ann E W Stone, founder of The Stone Group , an international business and political consultancy.  I was intrigued by the tile of the session:  ’25 skills that signal you are to be taken seriously’. In the first part [...]

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