China has always been a country that celebrates hard work and success in business.
At its core, being an assistant -- or an administrative professional -- is framed as a career upgrade, even if many of the tasks are essentially the same: It's a way of acknowledging the importance of administrative work and support to the success of many projects and even many people.
Yet in reading some of the posts this morning, I found myself thinking about work and the nature of opportunity and success.
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Further, by deploying trust, values and a purpose-driven mission as the primary drivers for all business activities, interactions and decisions, companies can transform a workforce of bricklayers into a highly coordinated and inspired team of cathedral-builders whose inspired work generates both success and significance for our companies and the world.
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One day, I found myself sitting in the bar in the Hotel Claridge with a little old man called Juan Carlos Borges, who was astonished at my interest in his work and at its success in Brazil, given that it had been years since he had published one of his brief botanical poems.
"The perception is one that exists and that we're not going to change apart from with hard work, good success and the kids putting their minds to the training, " Bates told BBC Sport.
And what are the rules and guidelines for achieving meaning and success in life and work?
Employment Minister Chris Grayling pointed to action the government was taking to boost business - through the Regional Growth Fund and enterprise zones - as well as the work experience scheme and Work Programme which was having "good success" in getting people in to work.
"By securing our new features in the protocol and therefore lightening up the application layer, we reduce the guess work, optimize development success and advance the entire market, " added Morris.
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If you lower the price of productive work, risk taking and success, you'll get more of these good things.
Being willing to give up the familiarity of the known and embrace the discomfort that comes from being outside your comfort zone is increasingly crucial to your success in work and life.
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Full-time employees have a vested interest in your company, both in terms of the time they devote and the quality of their work because they share in the success and failure of the company.
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And so when you go back and you talk to your friends and you say, what was the main message the President had -- we are rooting for your success, and we want to work with you to achieve that success, but ultimately success is going to be in your hands.
It begins with parents who are instilling in their kids not only a love of learning, but also the self-confidence and especially the self-discipline and work ethics that are at the heart of success in school and success in life.
Income taxes punish the very things we want more of: productive work, risk-taking and success.
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If you lower the price of productive work, risk-taking and success, you'll get more of these good things.
AD, as we call it, will also develop target metrics of success and work with our programming teams to achieve them.
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Your ability to speak up about issues that weigh you down is crucial to your success at work and in life.
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We have demonstrated this model can and does work with repeated success.
This team has been playing great cricket over the past year, has put in a lot of hard work and is very hungry for success.
She read a book called Co-Active Coaching: New Skills For Coaching People Towards Success in Work and Life, by Karen and Henry Kimsey-House (co-founders of the Coaches Training Institute), Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth.
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Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.
While some of it dovetails nicely with the career advice offered in my own book (written with fellow Forbes blogger Meryl Weinsaft Cooper), Be Your Own Best Publicist: How to Use PR Techniques to Get Noticed, Hired and Rewarded at Work (Career Press, January 2011), I still walked away with a ton of great tips on how to navigate your success at work and at home.
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"The staff and providers at Rosebud have made this program a success, and their hard work and dedication to protecting breastfeeding is evident, " says Clifton Kenon Jr.
Bring more joy (and less stress) to this season by optimizing your time, energy and definitions of success over the next three months at work and in the other parts of your life.
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Pope believes that wealth is the just reward for talent and hard work, and that all Americans have a fair chance at success.
They have to be interwoven and work together with an inward focus of vision and outward focus of success.
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Quirky humor is a mark of Onuki's work -- and key to its success.
Both Mario and the Baltimore Ravens serve as examples that with hard work and determination, our kids can overcome any adversity and see great success.
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No matter how great your idea might seem to be, it will take an enormous amount of work and persistence to make it a success.
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