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The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today's Business World By Frances Cole Jones; Ballantine; 184 pages
At the Olympics, the difference between a gold medal and not placing can be a fraction of a second. The author, a media consultant, believes that the margin of error for business people is similarly thin in this turbulent economy. Those who would prefer to keep their job--and that...
Some of the advice is blazingly obvious, even to the author, and that's her point. "It seems insane that I have to put this in writing, but experience has proven I must," she writes. "Wash your hair. Clean your nails. Do not chew gum." Don't forget to remove...
Jones also articulates the subtle dangers of the digital age in business settings, which are evolving. "Nobody--and I repeat, nobody--is so important they need to check their PDA during a meeting or lunch," she writes. "The people with whom you're talking need to have 100 percent of...
If I were in a contest against my peers--senior citizens--I would probably do fairly well. In a regular game, a good 30-year-old would clean my clock. As you age, your reflexes tend to slow down. So against the younger contestants, Bye-bye, Alex. You're gone...