Some people don’t feel good when they see themselves second or last on To: and Cc: email recipient lists or any other list that lists them (bit). Alphabetize the list and even mention casually that you do so (tip).
Prioritize, Alphabetize, Perspectiwise
The second P is not a misprint but the summary that puts the alphabetization of To: and Cc: lists into perspective wisely!
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Have you ever seen or worked with a person that never provides concrete answers or in the worst case doesn’t answer at all? Perhaps this persons considers any question as rhetorical and therefore has RQD. You need to stop asking questions and make statements instead.
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Thick books impress people (bit). Write and publish a technical book related to your work to show the complexity and importance of what your team does and highlight the technical ability of your department (tip).
If there is a perception among other people that the job of your team is easy and tasks can be accomplished more quickly then sufficiently thick book shows the opposite and emphasizes quality vs. speed.
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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:
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I own a few books about bullshit and reading them is great fun. The first one is about bullshit in economics, politics, medicine, marketing, sales, and many other areas of human activity. I read it completely two years ago and highly recommend:
The second book is very short, easy to carry around and looks like Tractatus Bullshito-Philosophicus:
The last two books I bought recently and the first of them is the dictionary that seems to be very funny too:
The other one seems to be a compilation of various philosophical works with guaranteed results:
Bullshit and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
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History and current affairs books are full with political case studies (bit). Read history books to get balanced view of politics and better understand corporations, internal and external forces that shape them and move people in, up, and out (tip).
I love history since childhood. I resumed reading history books after very long period of being a software engineer and in the future posts I’m going to point to some books that I recently read or plan to read. One of them is
Reading this book prompted me to buy another one that I’m reading now:
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
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