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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

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I F you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. For some entrepreneurs, raising financing can seem like a full time job, particularly in these trying times. Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong. Well not, wrong exactly.

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Lifestorming: Creating the Life You Want

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Lifestorming: Creating Meaning and Achievement in Your Career and Life presents life as a journey without a “there.” For example, don’t gamble with finances, time, health, or relationships. An evolutionary journey through life. We know that whatever fate delivers, we have some agency—even if it’s only in how we react.”

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A Road Map for Young Adults

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Choosing a career you can do well, rather than doing what you want, might sound unappealing, but it isn’t. He includes advice on what to do during each year of your college career, advice on internships, how to manage your finances, and what to say during interviews. Recommended for High School juniors and beyond.

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

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While I was walking the Camino, I thought a lot about my career and the leadership lessons I had learned. That book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results (Career Press), was named a Top 20 Leadership Book of 2016. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

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Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Blog Post ).

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Does Your Wellbeing Need a Boost?

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Gallup scientists have determined that there are five universal and interdependent elements of wellbeing that differentiate a thriving life from one spent suffering: Career : liking what you do every day (Tip: Every day, use your strengths.). You can structure your finances to minimize the worry caused by debt.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

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And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.