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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I also grew up with a father who had traditional values around gender roles, favoring female domesticity over entrepreneurship and leadership. For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. He didn’t believe that women should be in business.

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When Your Boss Is… Your Dad: 6 Tips For Navigating Fine Line Between Personal & Professional Life In Family Business

YoungUpstarts

You should also be able to name and / or quantify your results so you can present them to your boss and say, “Here is what I have accomplished. She is responsible for the company’s marketing, public relations, and CSR programs nationally and across Vietnam’s 63 provinces. Give me a chance to take this to the next level.”

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

I think the name of the game is managing this competition, fostering cooperation where we can. Well first, the sense of urgency you do hear at the top among the Pentagon leadership is not necessarily fully shared throughout the bureaucracy – surprise, surprise. We came out of Vietnam. We came out of the Great Depression.

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Adeo Ressi: Singapore Has The Highest Funding Rate, But That May Not Be A Good Thing

YoungUpstarts

The Founder Institute now has three chapters in this region, namely Singapore, Vietnam, and Jakarta. On another note, Adeo thinks that the Singapore government is grappling with “a bit of an identity crisis” on whether we want to be an attractive destination or the hotbed of leadership. On South East Asia.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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Is Blitzscaling Over?

Reid Hoffman

Meanwhile, the United States has already lost more lives to the disease than the entire Vietnam War and unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression. It is a risky strategy, but it is the right strategy for outracing the other players when competing for enduring leadership in a winner-take-most market.

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Domain Knowledge Matters Donald Trump

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Call me king of the obvious but I’d like to remind folks about something related to leadership, innovation, and the upcoming election. Creativity and innovation in leadership means making new connections, improving old approaches, and creating new approaches. Domain Knowledge Matters. His mother was an immigrant from Scotland.