8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You in School, from Lifehack

(www.bizchicksrule.com) — Mmm, I love me some Lifehack! Friday’s article from Brian Armstrong is just fab, with a primer on eight things every businesswoman, truly every woman, should know, along with a reading list. Here are the eight things:

1. How to make people like you and network
2. How to speed read and the power of audio books
3. How to set goals and manage time
4. How to read a financial statement
5. How to negotiate, use contracts, and not get taken advantage of
6. How to save and invest
7. How to be successful in life
8. How to spread an idea and basic marketing

Want to know more? Go read the whole article. There will be test afteward: It’s called "the rest of your life."

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