Archive for July, 2008

Job Interviews & NLP

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

This is a short and rather entertaining video from O’Reilly’s Ignite event. VJ describes how Neuro-Linguistic Programming ("NLP") techniques can be used in a job interview:

 
While the presentation was light, and the presenter made some humorous comments, it almost seems like the audience thought the whole thing was some kind of joke! Too bad, because […]

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Is Straight Talk Really Beneficial?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Criticism is futile  because it puts a person on the defensive and usually  makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
- Dale Carnegie
Are you a big proponent of talking “straight”? Is criticism alright if it’s “constructive”? I have always […]

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Once upon a time there was a Prince who, through no fault of his own, was cast under a spell by an evil witch. The curse was that the Prince could speak only one word each year. However, he could save up the words so that if he did not speak for a whole year, […]

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