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College to Career
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College to Career

by Mahadevan Ramesh
August 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
248 pages
6h 49m
English
Pearson Education India
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8

Work Hard, Work Smart

8.1 ‘Work hard !’

How many times have you heard this pitch when you were growing up? Hard work has remained a cherished ideal right since the caveman days and has appealed to generation after generation across all cultures. Even little children are taught the value of hard work. Globalization, modernization, technological revolutions, business paradigm shifts—nothing has changed the importance of hard work. Even today, those who work hard are worshipped as role models and you are exhorted to follow their footsteps.

What has changed is our understanding of the term hard work. It is no longer a simple virtue that turned us into good people but a complex, multidimensional soft skill that can take us farther and farther in ...

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