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Tying It All Together: Work Your Way to Success

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

 

–George Bernard Shaw

We have seen several different soft skills pertaining to attitude, starting from ‘seeing the big picture’ to ‘resilience’. Finally, it all comes down to execution and delivery. This means work. Ever since man ‘invented’ work—perhaps around the time he was hunting and gathering food—he also invented the notion of hard work. From time immemorial, hard work has been universally revered as an important work ethic, transcending cultural boundaries and cutting across different generations. But ‘hard work’ has assumed different dimensions ...

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