Why you should occasionally ask for help Not asking for help is one of the biggest career mistakes one can make, writes Sandhya Venkatachalam, partner and co-founder of Centerview Capital. While everyone should rely on their own judgment and take advice with a grain of salt, no one can succeed without help from time to time, she writes. Fortune (3/15) Don't define yourself by your enemies  | | (YouTube/JohnBaldoni) | Using a hated enemy to organize your leadership has short-term benefits but reveals an absence of positive foundational traits, John Baldoni argues in this blog post and video. "Letting people know what you can do is far better than letting people know whom you dislike," he writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership (3/13)
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 | Scarecrows bring back memories for Japanese villagers  | | (YouTube/ReutersVideo) | The village of Nagoro, Japan, has just 35 mostly elderly residents, and 65-year-old Tsukimi Ayano has spent years repopulating the community with scarecrows. There are about 150 cloth, stuffed mannequins posed around the town, waiting at bus stops, working in fields or sitting in the classroom of Nagoro's abandoned schoolhouse. Reuters (3/16)
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