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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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While you or I might accept a little dust as a fair price to pay for the convenience of a machine that sucks Cheerios and pet hair from rugs, Dyson did not. Deirdre supported Dyson’s prototype habit with her modest salary as an art teacher. Instead, he devoted his life to developing and marketing a new vacuum technology.

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

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He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career. He insisted he didn’t want to change anything, although he did agree that, moving forward, I would draw a higher salary for my administrative duties and we wouldn’t share the management of our clients as we had in the past; any new clients would be solely under my management.

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