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Christmas is special, in part, because it only happens once a year. Building on that concept, Mark Horstman, co-founder of Manager Tools, coined the “Christmas rule”: “If you do it rarely, and it’s important, you’re likely to underperform.” Christmas is a major activity for many of us. Since we don’t look for decorations and cook a turkey every day, it’s no wonder that we struggle with planning Christmas. Planning projects have just the same difficulty. The Christmas rule means we can’t expect to be highly proficient at tasks that we do infrequently. That’s why it feels so difficult when we …

Some experts say that if you aren’t on LinkedIn, you don’t exist. This could be true, but it does seem a little extreme. My existence as a professional is void because I don’t have a LinkedIn account? As it turns out, there are many reasons why career experts and hiring authorities speak so highly of LinkedIn. Here are the top five reasons why maintaining a strong LinkedIn presence is so important for every professional. The Networking Possibilities Roughly 380 million professionals from around the world are on LinkedIn, which means the opportunities for establishing new business and career connections through the platform are almost endless. There …

It was a Thursday night at 5pm. As I drove to pick up my 16-month old son from day care, I spoke to a client who was in a bit of a pickle. He needed help with an urgent sales proposal. It needed to be presented to a bigwig, potential client at lunchtime the next day. As he spoke, my mind raced to work out if, and how, I could fit in helping him. My fiancé was working late that night. I still had to go home, cook dinner, feed my son, bath him then put him to bed. Time …