When receiving lots of e-mails people pay attention first to something unusual (bit). Flag your request, inquiry or FYI e-mail as low-priority when you send it to a general distribution list (tip).
Here you have a chance to get your e-mail noticed by curious people and if you really sent something unimportant or not appropriate you won’t be accused because your e-mail was flagged as low priority.
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Yesterday in a local Dun Laoghaire bookstore I stumbled upon this book:
Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn’t and Why: 10 Things You’d Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead
Initially I hesitated but finally bought it. I wasn’t disappointed when I started reading it that evening. This book finally puts an explanatory system around career promotions and it really fits well with my observations in 15 companies I worked for during past 15 years. This doesn’t mean that I changed the company ever year 
The longest relationship with a company was 7 years and my current relationship with Citrix approaches 5 years. I just worked for some companies in parallel or just for a few months. This book also teaches some important vocabulary such as:
- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -
