There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your manners, your demeanor, your social skills. 'Substance' describes the inner core of your character - your intellect, your empathy, your creativity.

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Our goal is to provide these students with their first pair of glasses for free so they can experience the immediate and direct positive impact that a pair of glasses can have on their life, especially academics.

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By creating a feedback culture within your office, you ensure that people continue to learn, grow, and challenge themselves.

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Self-awareness is a trait - or maybe 'practice' is the more accurate way to put it - that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you.

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Every generation trash-talks younger generations. Baby boomers labeled Generation X a group of tattooed slackers and materialists; Generation Xers have branded millennials as iPhone-addicted brats.

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Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.

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A good collaboration pushes the boundaries of both partners.

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A workplace that encourages self-awareness is an environment where the most productive, curious, and innovative people thrive.

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For any collaboration to work, each partner must have a strong sense of identity. If one overpowers the other, it's like mixing lemonade with water - you wind up diluting the brew.

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Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity.

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I believe that the concept of 'design' encompasses every aspect of customers's exposure to a brand, from the moment they hear about us to the first time they visit our store to the process of ordering and anticipating the arrival of their glasses.

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The key to an ideal workplace, in one hyphenated word, is this: self-awareness.

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When a person has work, she has income and can achieve financial self-sustainability. She can prioritize her family's health and education. Her standing in the community is lifted, and so is her confidence.

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If you think about what are glasses, they are the best example of form and function.

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Every moment contains an opportunity to create feelings of satisfaction and excitement in a customer. It's up to retailers to make it happen.

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Just as a company needs a strategy to capture market share, a company needs a strategy to encourage actions that reflect their core values.

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At its best, entrepreneurship creates jobs, solves problems, and galvanizes creative thinking.

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Theoretically, an open-plan office is a great format for a changeable work environment, a place where employees have a say over how they work and a place that can adapt to their needs and to the needs of the business.

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All those articles that scold Millennials for their supposed entitlement? Forget them. Millennials are great employees.

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When it comes to marketing, creative resources are often worth far more than dollars.

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Walking in the morning improves my whole day. I think more clearly, my points of view are sharper, and I'm more decisive.

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