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How World-Class Mountain Guides Inspire Young Business Leaders

YoungUpstarts

One of the key leadership skills of a guide is the ability to identify and build on a client’s strengths, and to provide space for growth and development, even in the most challenging of conditions. If we build leadership in others, we develop a stronger line and an overall stronger organization.”. Third, guides empower others.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

Even though I learned a huge amount on marketing, leadership and business development, the whole thing was slowly eating me from inside. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. Know your talents, develop a skill people value.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. That’s all every person does until a life-changing application is developed that addresses their problem.) There was also that gutsy couple of years I decided to sail to Panama.)