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Believe It Or Not: 7 Leadership Lessons From Robert Ripley

Joseph Lalonde

In the end Ripley traveled to 201 countries in 31 years. Know that life changes : World war broke out during Ripley’s lifetime and this limited his ability to travel. Travel was the method Ripley used to gain new knowledge and facts about the strange people and places in the world. brand that’s become world famous.

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5 Clues That You Are Ready To Leave Your Corporate Job & Work From Home

Women on Business

You dream of traveling to conferences and meeting up with other like minded women, building or expanding business relationships along with taking on a stronger leadership role. If you can check of more than one item on the list above, you most likely have been thinking of leaving but have not yet taken the steps towards your exit strategy.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

For most of my prior career, I was a woman who: was happily married, may never have children, would earn a six figure income, was a loyal employee, was an over achiever, traveled to exotic places, would live in my dream home, and wanted to be involved in the highly charged corporate world forever! Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Nurture Entrepreneurs in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Investors cannot put money into most ideas because the exit strategy is limited. Here are some thoughts on how best to nurture entrepreneurs in Africa: Funding : While it is good to travel from the U.S. Unfortunately, the last group is not getting much help. Why invest in something that can be copied without any consequence?

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What Are You Not Good At?

Harvard Business Review

I hired a virtual assistant to manage the details of my calendar, travel and administrative life. If you can't envision getting to where you want to be by relying on your natural talents or leveraging your ability to learn, then its time to consider an exit strategy. Life is too short to just get by.