Great Leadership By Dan

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Sam Walton learned his retail operational skills from Ben Franklin. This teaches us about accountability and performance. School can teach us how to channel stress and define how we behave under pressure. School can also teach you industry-specific skills. Culinary schools prepare chefs with the specific skills required to run restaurants.

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Why Hippies Make Great Business Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Tsvi Strauch and the late Hyla Deer , husband and wife retailers employed both young businesswomen, Burch and Rose, to help stock their Haight Street boutique in 1966, and today they are responsible for the creation of an $11.5 billion men’s accessory fashion industry. This, at a time when most Americans had no idea what yogurt was.

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