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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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I was equipped with both and strong leadership skills that could help me succeed anywhere. “If She purchased a second location from her mother in 2012 and has since opened one more, giving her three locations in New Jersey. “My This article originally appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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Yet, despite all these technologies, the unique skills that come naturally to us as humans— emotional intelligence , empathy and social awareness to name a few—still reign supreme. Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012. Photo by Jimmy Day/courtesy of MIT Media Lab.

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Executive Assistant Best Job of 2012

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News on February 27, 2012 of the best jobs in 2012 and as one of the best jobs this profession was cited to see "significant growth over the next decade." Here is their article. The Best Jobs of 2012: Executive Assistant. See The Best Jobs of 2012.]. Do you see this being one of the best jobs in 2012?

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Adventure Climber Mo Beck Doesn’t Believe in Excuses

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In rock climbing, a sport sometimes defined by ambition driving out fear, Beck is always looking to finish the next pitch, add the next skill, conquer the next challenge. In climbing, that means pushing herself, adding more skills —and living to tell about it. She moved to Colorado in 2012 and dived into the climbing scene there.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” She moved on in 2012 and founded Mina Shah Enterprises the following year, self-funding with income from consulting.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. I could do all this work, but I found that my focus and time management suffered since each government agency worked in a different way, and each kind of consulting required different skills. Photo by ChickenStock Images/Shutterstock.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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It’s a scientific skill she’s honed throughout decades of research and practice, one that has earned her the title of “human lie detector.” Growing up, she began to develop the skill of how to read facial expressions more out of desperation than curiosity. “My She can also code the 10,000 muscle combinations within human expression.