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Salary Negotiating 101: 7 secrets to boosting your career earnings, negotiating a raise and striking the best deal in a job offer negotiation
Ralph Waldo Emerson is usually remembered as an American poet and philosopher, not a career-development expert.
Yet, the philosophy of self-reliance that Emerson developed with his friend Henry David Thoreau offers a blueprint for accomplishing remarkable things in life.
Some examples:
Salary Negotiating 101: 7 secrets to boosting your career earnings, negotiating a raise and striking the best deal in a job offer negotiation
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Self-reliance: the Emerson ideal
- By Executive Leadership
- 4/1/2006 - 5:30am
- Career Management , Leadership Skills
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Yet, the philosophy of self-reliance that Emerson developed with his friend Henry David Thoreau offers a blueprint for accomplishing remarkable things in life.
Some examples:
- Define your own life agenda and pursue it in the way that you decide is right.
- Question authority. Look critically at new ideas and decide whether you accept them. Ultimately, you’re in charge of your life.
- Beware of systems, cults and widely held beliefs. The fact that many other people have accepted an idea or belief doesn’t mean it’s correct.
- Develop a thirst for firsthand life experience. For Emerson, books were great. But the more he could experience life directly and learn its lessons, the wiser he felt he became.
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