If you really want to excel in this field, you need to understand the power dynamics of an organization.

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Start your Really Big List in a notebook, an Excel doc, or in a note on your phone, and keep it with you at all times.

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If you don't want to use Excel (and you don't really care whether you can determine your average daily mileage between trips to the mechanic), you've got a couple of other options.

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We now have four really great tablet models, the 7" Scroll Excel (which was rated as the Gadget Show's best budget tablet in November 2011), the new 8" Scroll Engage, the 9.7" Scroll Extreme and the new 9.7" Scroll Elite.

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Not everyone is so fortunate, though, so what I really want to tell you about is philanthropy, an area far more difficult to excel in than stock picking.

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