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HR Advice: To Be Successful at Work, Be Yourself

Mar 8

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde

If you want to be cool, think up your own buzzwords. Don’t run it up the flagpole. The people who get ahead in this world aren’t afraid to think for themselves. Groupthink breeds mediocrity.

If you want to be successful at work, be yourself.

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Frank Roche

Frank started IFRACTAL over 7 years ago with Sarah Chambers. Together, they've created HR communications and HR software for some of the world's leading companies. Frank is also studying Flamenco guitar and origami.

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Paul Hebert says:

March 10, 2010 at 8:28 am

No irony in that you used a quote to talk about not using other peoples thinking?

But I do agree – with the concept and the quote.

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- Frank Roche says:
  
  March 10, 2010 at 8:29 am
  
  Paul. [wink]
  
  Reply

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