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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. She believes the best teams have fun, laughter and optimism for the future. Meet Our Finalists Yasmine Arrington Founder, Executive Director, ScholarCHIPS, Inc.

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

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Olympic team in 1956, winning bronze in the 4×100 relay. Four years later, she truly made her mark, winning gold in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and as part of the 4×100-meter relay team, breaking three world records. Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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Thanks to people like him, we now know that diverse teams tend to outperform their more uniform counterparts. Maybe that team-building poker night at the local cigar bar isn’t such a good idea after all. It’s not only about what happens internally, how to build good teams , but also about how you relate with clients.”

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

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You’ve taken it to an entirely new high, working around other people, incubation theories, mentoring theories, accelerator theories, fundings, exits, team rooms, the very start up to the very exit point overall. I came away from that, and this is colored for sure by the.com bust in 2001. Paradigm shifts have you seen?

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Could telecommuting be a career mistake?

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Right now, we don’t have two employees in the same state, so we schedule weekly team meetings, and I make myself available at regular times by phone. Huhman says some members of her team battle the lack of personal interaction during their work day by taking their laptop computers and going to a local coffee shop. It’s that important.