Hiring people can definitely be a crapshoot. After all, people are putting on their best game faces when they are being interviewed because the stakes can be quite high since it involves people’s livelihoods and careers. With such large stakes many people will unsurprisingly go to great lengths to prepare for interviews and,
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Gary Carmell
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I recently read Andrew Carnegie’s autobiography and found it so compelling that I’m going to focus the next few blog posts on some areas of insight and wisdom that I think all investors, business people, and wealthy individuals, in general, could benefit from.
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This is my final installment about Lee Kuan Yew. There is still a lot I haven’t touched upon but three weeks have been a sufficient amount of time to devote to some of the most important lessons learned from Lee.
Ethical Leadership
One of CWS’ core values is “Ethical dealings are paramount.” It’s not only the right way to act but it’s also good business.
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This blog post was inspired by one recently written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. He is such a brilliant guy and was so right about Trump that I will forever hold him in the highest of esteem.
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The following chart shows that people are the most comfortable returning to work within a month or less as compared to other activities. The percentage is 65% so there is still a substantial minority who are still concerned about returning to their previous work environment.
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Gary Carmell
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With China having gotten a lot of heat for Covid-19 I thought I would end this post with advice that I think one of its great philosophers would have given had he been alive today. Confucius lived between 551-479 B.C. According to Wikipedia,
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Last week was a crazy week preparing for rent collections this week as well as going through in great detail the safety precautions we are taking to do our best to keep our employees and residents safe. That is why this blog is shorter than normal.
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I subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. This allows me to access any book in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited library provided that I don’t have more than 10 checked out at any one time. I honestly don’t know if it pays for itself because a lot of the books that I end up reading are quite inexpensive but what it does do is introduce me to books I would probably not have been aware of and results in me reading some I would never have considered purchasing.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was duty.
I worked—and behold, duty was joy.
-Rabindranath Tagore
“Life is not something,
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Gary Carmell
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Socrates said that “wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” In my book, I talk about the importance of wonder in the context of leading a fulfilling, meaningful, and interesting life. One of the best ways to keep wonder alive is to get outside of our normal environment and travel.
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