Fiercely competitive, inventive and multi-disciplinary, their job requires some sawing and hammering, but equally, inspiration.

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For instance, I used to be a server and when you are a server, although a very general job, you are multi-tasking like crazy when you are busy, which being in public relations you are continuously mutli-tasking.

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And McClaren paid for the multi-million pound defeat with his job after England proved second best on the night in almost every department.

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Through multi-tasked roles and employee empowerment, job satisfaction increased.

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To satisfy critics and turn the company around, Nooyi has embarked on an ambitious multi-year plan that includes 8, 700 job cuts.

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"My job is to try to design and establish a robust multi-purpose forest which will be sustainable in the long run, " he said.

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Have your tax advisor do multi-year tax projections, so you can do a better job of spreading deductions over multiple years to minimize the impact.

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But those choices were good ones: that multi-disciplinary training has contributed significantly to the way I do my job today.

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