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Re: Be Relentlessly Resourceful

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Paul, Please place links in your footnotes that take the reader back to the corresponding text.

After reading nearly thirty of your essays, this is one of the only few negative comments I have.

Re: Be Relentlessly Resourceful

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I _am_ relentlessly resourceful_ always have been since I was a kid. I'm now trying to mentor our admin asst to have more initiative and be responsible for small projects so I won't have to itemize her to-do's. I always had a hard time dealing with team members who aren't proactive from previous organizations, at least to the level I expect, but I _know_ it can be 'acquired' with proper guidance.

Re: Be Relentlessly Resourceful

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Does anyone have any thoughts on the ethics of being "relentlessly resourceful"? Its rumored that Bill Gates was in deep trouble with Harvard for draining university resources in order to launch Microsoft. If we imagine for a second that its actually true, is what he did okay from an ethical standpoint?

Re: Be Relentlessly Resourceful

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post #167

Does anyone have any thoughts on the ethics of being "relentlessly resourceful"? Its rumored that Bill Gates was in deep trouble with Harvard for draining university resources in order to launch Microsoft. If we imagine for a second that its actually true, is what he did okay from an ethical standpoint?

Harvard would certainly say so.

Re: Be Relentlessly Resourceful

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post #165

Paul, Please place links in your footnotes that take the reader back to the corresponding text. After reading nearly thirty of your essays, this is one of the only few negative comments I have.

Just use the Back button.
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