Companies joined hands purportedly by exchanging an astronomical sum, the excitement is palpable as the later has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Microsoft. This has left the entire world baffled as the deal totaling a cool 26.2 billion, is by far the largest in its history and one of the most expensive tech acquisitions so far. Economic Opportunity LinkedIn’s vision is to strive to create economic opportunity for every single member of the global workforce. Both the companies are established professional leaders in their own space, be it cloud services or professional networking and the deal has ...

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As a working professional, you would wholeheartedly agree that effective communications are indeed a critical component when it comes to mastering success. You have to begin the quest by mastering the art of communication first and foremost. Communicate Skillfully If you are able to just communicate OK, you will get by fine, but if you are able to communicate skillfully, you would be able to work miracles, not just in your professional relationships, business relationships, family relationships but also your friendships as well. Fine Art To add further weight-age and buttress the argument, it is safe to say that by ...

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Are you contemplating composing your resignation email, or you have written a draft already, it is entirely possible that you have lost interest in the work itself? Many of us tend to internalize stress, that is when the toxic work life starts to spill over. The Root Cause It is about time that we get to the root cause. It is indeed no fun to dread work and not be able to do anything about the same. It seems that somewhere down the line your work took a life of its own and your happiness got usurped in the process. ...

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Like most people, if you think you need talent in order to succeed you are right on the mark, in general for businesses, management and leadership successes this is true to a great extent. Talent Is God’s Gift to You Well, you do need a certain degree of talent. There are various ways for you to succeed and succeed greatly, even it means you are bereft of any worthwhile talent. Let us examine the whole phenomenon, and upon careful examination, you will find that talent is God’s gift to you and what you do with talent is your gift back ...

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Just imagine a perfect world, where the assignments completed by you would speak for themselves, you would be working in friendly teams most of the time with fair-minded workers who would be ever ready to collaborate, effusive with their praise and overflowing with self-effacing humility. Navigate Office Politics In such a scenario you would never ever have to worry about going ahead with self-promotion or feel the need to navigate office politics in order to get your due. All of this is way too good to be found true in the present day working world, in an ideal world it ...

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