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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Having a plan to exit helps manage risk by reducing exposure to potential downsides if conditions change and is especially important for startups or high-risk investments that face higher levels of uncertainty.” Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. billion.”

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

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Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting. Again from the Quartz article: What IBM should value most, says John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University who specializes in HR strategy, are better ideas.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. She started everything from scratch.

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