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243. 9 hours with Andrew Tate : 80 Lessons from Hustler’s University
This lesson covers all 80 rules created by Andrew Tate. It presupposes you “don’t want to be a CEO of a company; and you want to be a hustler who makes millions a year.”
By Joshua SMITH
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242. 26 Hours with Armin Trost: Human Resources Mgmt: Attracting, Hiring & Retaining Top Talent
This lesson summarizes the complete 22-lecture series offered by Armin Trost at Hochschule Furtwangen University into 179 questions. Probably everything you need to know to pass Armin Trost’s final exam, from attracting, hiring and retaining top talent.
By Joshua SMITH
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241. 30 Hours with Grant Cardone: Mastering the Business Cycle, Sales Cycle and Becoming Wealthy
Grant Cardone is an American author, motivational speaker, real estate investor, and sales coach. This lesson summarizes 82 videos from Grant Cardone’s Youtube channel, offering 563+ takeaways.
By Joshua SMITH
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240. 10 Hours with Recruiters: Post COVID-19 Job Interview Strategies & Response Templates
10 hours of high-quality, curated content gleaned from professional recruiters and head hunters blended with my personal experience as a talent development specialist training over 15,000 professionals and university students, neatly bundled up and in one place.
By Joshua SMITH
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How to Shape Human Behavior for Negotiators
How to Shape Human Behavior for Negotiators outlines 670 employment, compensation negotiation and freelancing solutions from +234 specialists from +114 agencies. Always consider how your message will be perceived by your target consumer demographic as well as the short- and long-term positive and negative implications your actions will have on your brand image.
By Joshua SMITH
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239. 10 Hours with Recruiters: Upgrade Your CV Template, Find Hidden Job Offers & 10x Response Rates
This lesson explores jobsearch strategies by reverse-engineering how successful recruiters source candidates. You will find 17 videos, 148+ links, 292+ takeaways and 63 questions to test your mastery of this lesson.
By Joshua SMITH
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How to Shape Human Behavior for Advertisers
How to Shape Human Behavior for Advertisers outlines 662 advertising, branding, marketing and public relations solutions from +63 specialists from +38 agencies. Always consider how your message will be perceived by your target consumer demographic as well as the short- and long-term positive and negative implications your actions will have on your brand image.
By Joshua SMITH
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238. 10 Hours with Nathaniel Drew: Filmmaker, Photographer, Digital Nomad
Nathaniel Drew is a Youtuber, filmmaker, photographier and digital nomad living in Paris, France. This lesson summarizes 50 videos from his Youtube channel, resulting in 152 links and 156+ takeaways.
By Joshua SMITH
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237. 20 Hours with Tai Lopez: Investor, Entrepreneur & Author
This lesson 237 explores 17 videos from Tai Lopez’ Youtube Channel, and comes away with 184 links. 223+ takeaways on financial investing and entrepreneurship and 100 questions to test your mastery of this lesson.
By Joshua SMITH
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236. Special Request: How to handle the police until your lawyer arrives
This short lesson offers 18+ very important advice from a lawyer on managing the police if ever you find yourself under investigation.
By Joshua SMITH
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235. Special Request: Social media & its consequence on human psychology
Social media and online presence is critical today. This 93-minute interview with Sam Vaknin summarizes 31+ takeaways about the consequences of social media addiction on the future of humanity.
By Joshua SMITH
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234. How coronavirus (Covid-19) & influenza viruses jump from animals to humans
This short lesson explores how endemics become pandemics, and the environments that favor viral host jumps, with examples.
By Joshua SMITH
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233. How to study smarter, not harder
It’s not how hard you work, but how smart. Why take a year to learn something, when you coud learn it in 2 months? This lesson explores 19+ techniques on how to improve your competence, which can in turn become your competitive advantage and negotiation strength.
By Joshua SMITH
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232. The Difference Between Long-Term Success & Mediocrity
This very short lesson highlights the relationship between luck and success, and how to use this information to gain an advantage in life, and success; however you define it.
By Joshua SMITH
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231. The greatest skill you can possess: Knowing how to learn
It’s not what you know, it’s how you learn. This short lesson offers 8+ takeaways and 5 steps to learn as efficiently as possible.
By Joshua SMITH
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230. The greatest skill you can possess: Effective note-taking
An imperative to effective learning is efficient note taking, and not all note taking strategies are the same. This lesson shares 25+ takeaways to improve your note taking skills, backed by research.
By Joshua SMITH
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229. Special Request: Becoming a strategic advisor to your clients
Client management is the highest form of professional networking. Do it right and you’ll never be ‘out of a job’ or ‘looking for clients’. This short lesson offers +11 takeaways to become a strategic advisor to your clients.
By Joshua SMITH
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228. Special Request: Anatomy of a Top Candidate Compensation Negotiation
This lesson dives deep into a compensation negotiation roleplay, offering +16 strategies shown and discussed by Ramit Sethi and a high-potential, high-performing, top talent candidate.
By Joshua SMITH
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227. 16 Reasons Why Your Creative Ideas Might be Sh!t
“Read shit and you’ll think shit and you’ll create shit. Unless you aspire to shit, then that’s what you should do.” Plus 15 other reasons why your ideas might be shit.
By Joshua SMITH
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226. Love & Engineering: A Geek’s Guide to Hacking the Software of Love
Head vs Heart. Emotions aren’t rational. You’re not truly in love until you’ve been connected to monitors and tested. Real love is about creating a front end attractive enough to hack the target’s server… until death do you part.
By Joshua SMITH
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225. Influence: 6 Proven Techniques to Improve Your Ability to Influence + BONUS!
This short book review lesson outlines 7 persuasion techniques to be more influencial by the famous author Robert Cialdini.
By Joshua SMITH
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224. Getting to Yes: How to Negotiate When You’re The Weaker Party
This short book review lesson of Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher & William Ury outlines 8 techniques to negotiate when you’re the weaker party.
By Joshua SMITH
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223. Effective Communication Strategies to Increase Productivity & Be More Persuasive
This short book review lesson looks at 2 important principles to keep in mind when communicating for persuasion: WIIFM and tit for tat.
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222. How to Ru(i)n a Government: 6 Barriers & 3 Cognitive Biases That Thwart Win/Win Negotiations
This book review lesson explores how powerful governments and politicans are, yet how poorly they are trained in the art of negotiation, and points out 6 psychologically flawed assumptions that prevent effective government.
By Joshua SMITH
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221. Critical Thinking: How The Stories You Tell Yourself Determine Your Perspective
This short book review lesson looks at 5 cognitive biases that hinder critical thinking, with a case study on how to ruin a child’s future.
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220. How to Run A Business: Offensive and Defensive Strategies To Manage Competitive Attacks
This short book review lesson loos at offensive and defensive business strategies to protect yourself against competitors. This book is a MUST read!
By Joshua SMITH
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219. Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Strategies & Systems to Improve Life
This short book-review lesson outlines how to be healthy, wealthy and wise; the 3 major sections of the book.
By Joshua SMITH
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218. How to Find A Job: 5 Basic Requirements Of An Attractive Linkedin Profile
This short lesson explores the basics of how to build your professional reputation and convert it into a digital currency, which you can then use to turn into financial wealth.
By Joshua SMITH
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217. How to Find A Job: Applicant Tracking Systems Basics & How Candidates Are Qualified
Accept it or not, computers and AI already dictate the human world. Most jobseekers, unfortunately, don’t know that computers decide their hiring fate, and are thus frustrated that they cannot advance in their career. This defunct software shows the origins of what ATS has become today…
By Joshua SMITH
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216. What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard: Lessons in People, Sales, Negotiation & Business Mgmt
From managing people through sales, leadership, fashion and modeling and negotiation, this book is my top 10 favorite. It stands the test of time. Buy this book.
By Joshua SMITH
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215. Critical Thinking: Anna Wintour On Intellectual Liberty & NOT Highly-Specializing
This short speech by Anna Wintour offers intelligent advice on starting and building your career. Being completely self-sufficient and understanding how and why things work gives you considerable competitive advantage.
By Joshua SMITH
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214. Critical Thinking: 7 Habits of Highly-Effective People
This video book review outlines the 7 habits of highly-effective people: Be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, understand before trying to be understood, synergize and put in the work.
By Joshua SMITH
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213. PressPausePlay: Digital, Before & Now. The Most Disruptive Thing to Happen to Humans to Date
Valtech RADON is a hybrid creative agency based in Stockholm, Sweden. This documentary explores how creativity and disruption collide.
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212. Critical Thinking: Why ‘Being Lucky’ Is A Crutch & 5 Strategies to Improve Your Luck
This brief lesson explores the difference between skill and luck, and shows that ‘the harder you work, the luckier you get’
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211. Brainwashing’s Implication in Education, Advertising, Religion & Government
Brainwashing is accused to be the cause when: a) there appears to be a sudden, inexplicable, and extreme difference in beliefs and behaviors in a person, b) over a short period of time, and c) no other reason or justification for the change in belief and behavior can be found…
By Joshua SMITH
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210. Critical Thinking: 3 Ways Arab Businesswomen Can Find Equality In Male-Dominated Societies
LESSON 1. Convert their sh*t into your own fuel. LESSON 2. Work your life to keep work out of your life. LESSON 3. Join forces; don’t compete.
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209. Self-Defense: What’s The Most Effective Self-Defense System to Learn As Quickly As Possible?
There is no one ‘magic’ self-defense system or instructor, but Brazilian jui-jitsu, Western boxing, Muai Thai, wrestling and krav maga give you a well-rounded approach.
By Joshua SMITH
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208. Why You Believe You’re Right Even When You’re Wrong
December 1894 in France, a discarded note was discovered in a trashcan. That note, turned into a full-scale investigation that sparked one of the biggest political miscarriages of justice in history.
By Joshua SMITH
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207. A Panoply Examining The Anatomy & Strategy of a Rap Beat Masterpiece
“The point of appreciating rap music is to see what the very most clever human beings are capable of doing that you didn’t think was possible.”
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206. Why You Should Never Talk to The Police, And How The Police Get You to Talk
“86% of all defendants plead guily at some point before trial… and more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating statement.”
By Joshua SMITH
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205. UX User Interface Design: How Consumers Tell You What They Want
“Failing to notice desire paths in your company’s products and services is failing to meet your consumer’s needs & wants. Consumers may suffer through your lack of concern for them, or they may go to your competitor.”
By Joshua SMITH
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204. How Donald Trump Uses Language to Persuade
“Trump uses so many logical fallacies in such a short amount of time that analyzing his speeches for logical fallacies is the most efficient use of time. This analysis attempts to objectively deconstruct Donald Trump’s argument style, and is not meant to be a reflection of political belief or affiliation.”
By Joshua SMITH
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203. Joel Osteen on Overcoming Setbacks, Thoughts, & Enemies
11 takeaways from this video: 00:01:15 Plant the right seeds. What you say becomes reality, and the words you use bring life or death to your goals; restraining or opening up your future. Don’t like what you’re getting from life? Change the way you define and talk about life. 00:03:13 Be at peace. It’s easier to perservere through…
By Joshua SMITH
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202. Apocalypse? What happens when Humans Disappear
Within 25 years, 75% of the planet, including city streets and inter-connecting highways, will be covered with plants and vegetation, leading to a dramatic improvement in air quality and the animals that have survived the nuclear apocalypse will begin venturing into the cities.
By Joshua SMITH
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201. John Oliver’s Dangers Of Not Challenging Junk Science
Science is extremely complex and mainstream media’s business model is glorifying new and different content as they push that content to the less scientifically-saavy, general population. Scientists have found themselves in the same boat as an online blogger seeking views for monetization.
By Joshua SMITH
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200! The Art of Pissing People Off From The World’s Greatest Internet Troll
The Art of Pissing People Off. Internet trolling is like ‘bringing a banana to a gun fight.’ Dysfunctional comments sections and news posts who attract an older audience make the easiest targets.
By Joshua SMITH
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199. How to Ensure Your Presentations Will Inspire and Change The World
Storytelling is one of the most powerful means of communicating a story because they provoke physical reactions within the audience, and it can be easily remembered and its key points recited.
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198. How to Tell Stories that Motivate, Inspire, Move, and Change People
The most powerful stories appeal to some core truth about the human condition, write your ending before you figure out your middle, and 24 other important Pixar storytelling takeaways.
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197. Sales & Customer Service Strategies From The Luxury Industry
Published in 2009, Robin Lent and Geneviève Tour’s book Selling Luxury offers brands 88 imperatives to connecting with affluent customers, creating unique experiences through impeccable service, and closing the sale.
By Joshua SMITH
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196. Sex & Dating: Fetishes, Fantasy, and Spanking; Understanding What Turns You On
18 takeaways from this lecture:
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195. Louis C.K. on How To Overcome Weaknesses & Reach Success
11 takeaways from this 22 minute interview
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194. What Makes Successful People Successful & How to Copy Them
09 takeaways from this talk:
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193. How to Grow Your Business: Turning Strangers Into Friends & Friends Into Customers
Published in 1999, Seth Godin’s book Permission Marketing explains how to grow your business by turning “strangers into friends, and friends into customers.”
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191. Doni Belau of Girls’ Guide to Paris on Product Diversity & Collaborating With Competitors
Entrepreneur of Girls Guide to Paris, Doni Belau has over 9 years experience providing women with the best of all things French and Paris.
By Joshua SMITH
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190. Why Humans Sleep, What Happens When They Do & The Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
05 takeaways from this video:
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189. Conducting Effective Negotiations When You HAVE TO Have The Deal
22 takeaways from this lecture:
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188. Critical Thinking: How to Build A Career You’re Proud Of Without Burning Bridges
Published in 2003, Richard Templar’s book The Rules Of Work: A Definitive Code For Personal Success outlines 108 rules to make your mark and move up in the corporate world as quickly and efficiently as possible.
By Joshua SMITH
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187. Critical Thinking: 8 Biases That Hinder Progress In The Workplace
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186. How to Build an Amazing UI/UX Design & Why You’re Overthinking It
20 takeaways from this talk:
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185. Clemens Ruh on ‘Defining’ Music, Cover Design & How Music Shapes Emotion
Entrepreneur, composer, DJ and producer for film and cinema and other media, Clemens Ruh has +15 years experience creating and producing music for clubs like Distillery and Elipamanoke in Leipzig, Germany,
By Joshua SMITH
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184. Managing Age, Cultural & Personality Differences, Jerks & Assholes
24 takeaways from this video:
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183. How to Feign Competence While Talking About Books You Haven’t Read
Published in 2009, Pierre Bayard’s book How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read answers the question of whether or not it’s possible, and acceptable to give an informed opinion about books you haven’t read, and offers 12 proven techniques
By Joshua SMITH
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182. How to Run A Business: Lessons Learned In Conflict Resolution
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181. The Awkward Relationship Between Doctors & Pharmaceutical Companies
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180. The Secret to Success & Why Should You Read A Book A Day?
07 takeaways from this talk:
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179. How to Run A Business: Superbrand Secrets From The Technology Industry
13 takeaways from this video:
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at TEDx Talks at the Institut Des Hautes Etudes à Paris 2016
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177. Criminal Profiling: Exploring The Mind of Killers & Psychopaths
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176. How To Start A Startup: 25 Reasons Businesses Fail Within 4 Years
29 takeaways from this lecture:
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175. The Curse of Incorrect Door Handle Design and How It Can Be Fixed
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173. How Much It Actually Costs To Create Your Own ‘Viral’ Hit Song
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172. How Netflix and Amazon Pleasure You through Data-Driven Algorithms
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171. The Fermi Paradox: Why We Haven’t Met Aliens & What Would Happen If We Did
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170. Sex & Dating: Love Sickness: The Problematic & Pathological Side of Love
14 takeaways from this lecture:
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169. 20 Tips to Better Negotiate Your Job Offer & Compensation Package
28 takeaways from this lecture:
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168. Sex & Dating: The 3 Phases of Love & Why We Love and Cheat
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167. Seth Godin’s Business Toolbox: Help Your Business Do It Right The 1st Time
31 takeaways from this course:
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166. Human Behavioral Biology: Species Evolution On A Molecular Level
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165. How to Run A Business: Superbrand Secrets From The Fashion Industry
16 takeaways from this video:
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164. How To Ru(i)n A Business: When Content Meets Native Advertising
04 takeaways from this video:
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163. Self-Defense: HaganaH Knife And Gun Defenses And Disarms
39 takeaways from this video:
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162. Dave Trott on True Creativity & How Creatives Can Start Revolutions
Author, entrepreneur and creative director, Dave Trott has over 40 years experience challenging the foundations of creativity in the advertising industry. [EDITOR’S NOTE: My line of questioning is based in part from Dave Trott’s June 2012 interview by William Channer of Dorm Room Tycoons:
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161. How To Start A Startup: Building Your Prototype & Fake It Until You Make It
19 takeaways from this video:
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160. Elif Tanverdi of Cizenbayan on Being Yourself & Why Interaction Beats Analytics
Owner and blogger of cizenbayan, Elif Tanverdi has over 5 years experience dreaming, listening, creating, experiencing and sharing the moments that define her life.
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In Behavior Modification In The Press: Paris Expatriates Magazine Edition 18
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159. Human Resources Management: How to Measure Your Employees’ Value
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158. The Complicated Relationship Between Digital & Psychological Development
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157. User Interface Design: Psychological Bases For UI Design Rules
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156. The Awkward But Evolving Relationship Between Technology & Skin Tone
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155. Negotiation: Common Mistakes, Underhanded Techniques & How to Improve
21 takeaways from this video:
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154. Emmanuel Caurel Of Bizarre Love Triangle On Creating An Emotional Branding Strategy
Event planner, DJ and co-collaborator of Bizarre Love Triangle, Emmanuel Caurel has +9 years experience dominating the Parisian night life and uniting trend-setters.
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153. Critical Thinking: How Personal and Subjective Validation Distorts Perception
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152. Human Resources Management: The Cost of Expatriate Failure
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151. Nicolas Minisini of Brand Union on Branding, Whiskey & Epicurean Culture
Strategic Planner for Brand Union and one of the co-creators of Distilleurs.fr, Nicolas Minisini has +6 experience seeking, compiling and interpreting information about his client’s industries to better understand their target consumer demographic and how the brand can best reach them.
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150. Olivier Massanella on Brand/Product Truths & Unique Selling Propositions
Account Manager for DDB, Olivier Massanella has +6 years experience working with brands to identify the intersection between the brand’s core truth and the brand’s market environment.
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148. How To Start A Startup: 16 Interview Questions to Close A Venture Capitalist.
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