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International Travel as Education, Adventure and Service

Chris Brady

There were the occasional family trips across the country, the most memorable being the one to California and back after my High School graduation, complete with a robbery, car accident, and engine flames in the cab of the motor home while driving down the highway (these and other episodes will perhaps be covered in future musings).

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Write letters to the editors and blogs to encourage dialogue. A good way to start honing this courage is through Letters to Editors.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding. In the past, Ellison has been quoted as saying that the island feels to him like “this really cool 21st-century engineering project.” Risk management'

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Wait a while. Sell stock in the company.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. On the side of getting letters which say you’ve got to tighten [raise rates], it was a zero.