If a friend tells you, "You have bad breath"--is she now your enemy?

If an enemy tells you, "Damn, you have bad breath"--is he now your friend?

 

I say yes, to both questions--because knowing your flaws can enlighten your general and specific outlook about yourself and others.  And those who approach you with such insights have personal and professional motives.  Your challenge is to decipher the difference.

 

How this applies to recruitment; the selection…

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I’ve been watching the massive growth of Facebook just like everyone else. From a small idea in a Harvard dorm room to over 400 million global users, Facebook is huge. As a Facebook user for the past several years, I’ve successfully dealt with some interesting friend requests. First, people from high school that I used to be friends with but by graduation we were no longer speaking. Accepted, we’re all adults now. Then, my ex-girlfriends asked to be my friend. Declined, too hard to explain to… Continue

Well the Twitter outages are no secret to anyone that's been using the web based micro-blogging tool lately. And the picture of the whale being carried across the sea by small (tweeting) birds when Twitter has reached maximum capacity says it all. And despite the fun we have blaming…

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