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Guy Kawasaki is the author of eleven books, including his latest, The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users. For four years he evangelized Macintosh to software and hardware[…]

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Guy Kawasaki reflects on how he got his foot in the door at Macintosh because of who he knew, not because of his skill set. Nonetheless, this led to a great career. So short of doing something immoral, Guy Kawasaki says his message is that you should get into a company “any way you can.”

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