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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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To reach that level, to be named the youngest self-made woman on Forbes ’ “World’s Billionaires” list in 2012 and No. I just do it because—darn it—there are a lot of women [in the world] who don’t have the opportunity to get up in the morning and even get an education, so I can get my butt on a plane and deal with it.

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

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Among the initiatives that emerged from the exercise was a group formed to “[identify] and [support] sales and marketing strategies” that could be utilized to reach women- and minority-owned businesses. We need to stop thinking about diversity programs in the workplace as a form of affirmative action. Progress, however, has been slow.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

These are reasons for quitting that would be reasonably offered in letters of resignation and at an exit interview. Reasons that are more difficult to be written down in a letter or spoken aloud in an exit interview. That number has increased from age 42 in 2012. These reasons are easily accepted without question.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. The University of Attitude, founded by Glenn Bill, is the world’s #1 source for attitude education, development and engagement.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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When 37-year-old neuroscientist Jill Bolte-Taylor had a massive stroke in 1996, she lost her ability to form words and move her body but also experienced what she would later describe in her TED Talk as “euphoria”. Johnny Sun is a person of many talents: He’s an MIT- and Harvard-educated producer, TV writer, creator, writer and illustrator.

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