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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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Foster says he learned a few things after the company’s first eight years of growth. A major lesson learned at Excel in the early days is the virtue of hard work. We were making a lot of cold calls, just pounding the phones, to try and convince people to work with us. Still, he kept his eyes on the prize—making Excel viable. “I

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How to Start Over

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In 2011 I was in Mexico at a bachelor party when I wrecked an ATV in the desert. It took two and a half years to recover from that brain injury, and that was probably the hardest fresh start I ever had because I had to learn how to reuse my mind. Often after a fresh start, you have to learn to coach yourself.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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Partnerships gone wrong can lead to frustration, financial losses and even litigation, says David Gage, co-founder of business mediation firm BMC Associates and author of The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You’re In). Does the organization share your values ?

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Henderson said the global view comes easily to female entrepreneurs: “Women connect all the dots… Almost every company that’s forward-looking, looking into all these issues and how to turn them into positive opportunities , tends to be led by a woman.” The corporations took notice, and the legislators took notice,” she recalls.

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How Happy Are You?

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Some time before I was a happy person, on Fourth of July weekend in 2011, I moved out of my home and first marriage—and then my laptop quit. So when I moved into that rental house to start a yearlong separation, he was a dad who wanted to help, and knew how to help, but couldn’t articulate the help. How I tracked my happy moods.

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part II

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Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Author's Note: This is the last part of a two-part series on "How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities" and a quick Review of Field Notes Notebook ]. But How To Apply This Method? With no current to power the computers, there was not much that I can do except to make the necessary phone calls.

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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

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A few years ago, Shaq shared his idea for how to save gas with a national TV audience. He was on the set of Inside the NBA, where he’s been an analyst since 2011, the year he retired from his playing career. He thinks of each mistake as a learning opportunity. I tell them, ‘Your mom and dad can help you more than I can.’”.