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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

Despite being drafted out of high school, however, Abbott decided instead to attend the University of Michigan, where he led the Wolverines’ baseball program to two Big Ten Conference championships and became the first baseball pitcher to earn the James E. Sullivan Award for the best amateur athlete in the country.

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Summit at Sea 2011 – The new trend in business is impact

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

For those of you who haven’t heard of the Summit Series, allow me to bring you up to speed… What started as a ski trip for nineteen silicon valley entrepreneurs has grown in the past four years to a white house recognized power-conference. In other words, books bound for landfills.

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