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BUSINESS

BUSINESS

ACHIEVING RESULTS

• Thinking is a discipline.
If you want to be better at it, you’ve got to
work at it.
• Figure out where you
need to focus your energy, and then use the
80/20 rule
• To think differently, do
different things.
When I graduated from
my undergraduate degree, I worked as a Junior
Accountant at a medium
sized CA firm in Canada.
I was inundated with
audit work and found
myself often confused by
the amount of work. One
time while working late
into the night my boss
came up to me and said
to me “What are you doing? Shuffling papers!”

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ikely all of us have, at some time or another, felt “snowed under” at work. Tasked with so
many projects that the thought of seeing the