#promotion

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done. ↗

— Max McKeown

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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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The only risk of failure is promotion. ↗

— Scott Adams

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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#be careful #because #believes #body #careful

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom. ↗

— Andrew Murray

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I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

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I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#being #bikini #coup #ended #held

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. ↗

— Amos Oz

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

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