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Rocking the Boat: 4 Traits of Wave Makers

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With their recommendations, I came up with an eclectic and interesting mix of changemakers, including a Major League Baseball manager, a young entrepreneur, a CEO, a community service leader and a recent graduate. Wave Makers place more importance on reaching their goal and its impact than on personal recognition.

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Perform at Your Peak Level with These 5 Mind-Sharpening Tips

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How you think impacts everything, so it’s important to learn how to sharpen your mind. Start by recognizing self-defeating and sabotaging thought patterns and replacing these patterns with powerful and confident thoughts that support your goals and objectives. This article was published in October 2014 and has been updated.

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A Talented Woman Crafting Careers for Women

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Manager and attorney Ashley Villa never expected to run her own firm, let alone her own talent management business focusing on women who are carving out new horizons in the digital space. And I remember thinking and saying, “Oh, no, my main goal is just to work at a law firm, make a really good salary.”

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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It is in this moment that you can appreciate his complete story and why he is adamant that financial abundance comes to those with a hunger for hard work, continuous learning and development, constantly adding more value to the next person and a willingness to do well by also doing well for others.

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

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All the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, probably didn’t pay for their Ferraris by being nice to people. 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. Nice people don’t always finish first.

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Uncorking the Dream: Founding Ampersand Estates in Australia’s Wine Country

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Carving her niche At 23, Bell spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, where she learned about vodka production from her host family, who distilled it from potatoes. They left Velrada together to launch a consulting firm, The Terrace Initiative, in Perth in 2014. I’m 100% an entrepreneur at heart.”

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). million workers and generating revenue of $1.9 of women-owned businesses.

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