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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

It really improved my ability to delegate, and I understood that I was able to lead without being physically present. Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. I had to keep working, even if I might never walk again. I managed my restaurant from my hospital bed, by writing the menus, for example.

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