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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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Since 2012, when Chance released his first mixtape after graduating from Jones College Prep in 2011, his promise has attracted attention from established artists eager to collaborate. Only in his 20s, Chance had already accomplished major goals he’d set for himself, including hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live and winning Grammys.

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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.” The industries of women in business The industries these women settled into differed between the reports. of women-owned businesses.

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Effectively Harnessing the Power of Fear

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Imagine that you’re at the edge of a cliff and your goal is on the other side. I was lucky enough to have a mentor, someone who is arguably one of the best public speakers in the industry, in the world. In a 2012 study from a team of UCLA psychologists even found that verbally acknowledging fear can help us regulate the feeling.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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The goal is to increase capability—whether through offering new products or services, expanding in capacity or geographically, or cross-promoting,” she says. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. In 2012 I passed along between 35 and 40% of the work that came my way.

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Food Truck Nation

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cities and the goal is to show what it's like to start an operate a food truck. We've long covered the food truck industry and in 2012 released what is still our favorite study,  Food Trucks Motor into the Mainstream, in partnership with Intuit. The index covers 20 U.S.

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How to Implement a Zero Waste Business Strategy

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Companies that reduce or eliminate this line item from their budgets put themselves in a far better position to compete, no matter their industry. However, this team won’t be successful if they’re not working with the rest of the company to determine goals. sent to landfills by 2012, 75% by 2020 and 90% by 2040.

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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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My goal with being able to read facial expressions was never anything I had intended to use professionally,” Särnblad says. “I with her family in 2012, her ability to code microexpressions allowed her to jump-start her career in strategic advising. Yet, she would tell you she never meant for this to be her career.