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Good first impressions....are good for business.
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When I started as a journalist the first company I worked for had an old newspaper man called Harold who ruled the newsroom. He was called chief sub-editor – the ‘sub’ is the person who fixes your mistakes before they go into the newspaper or magazine – although it was inconceivable that anyone could have worked under him.
Every morning he would arrive at 4 am and edit all the copy, looking for these mistakes, and a thousand more that he had internalised in the 50 years to that date. If you made
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― Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle
― Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle
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