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A workplace for entrepreneurial mindsets to thrive should be your goal

Workplace Insight

Rather, they can occasionally be found in very large and well-established companies – and everyone can benefit from learning how to become more entrepreneurially-minded. Apple had launched the iPod and introduced the iTunes store, which was named Time magazine’s Coolest Invention of 2003. It was January 2004. Surely not.

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

Success

For Rudolph, the goal was everything. Never one to let a perceived disability stand in the way of his goals, he pursued athletics with his heart and soul. I’ve learned that it’s not the disability that defines you,” Abbott explains. In 2003, again swimming the 800-meter freestyle, she won gold at the All-Africa Games.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

Success

Position your employees as the hero of the company story to achieve goals, identify vendors and partners as the hero to bolster synergies, or find ways to insert the customer into the role of hero or heroine. Smith says his heart broke a little to learn the story of a Pizza Hut in Springdale, Arkansas.

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Want More Charisma? It All Starts with Your Mind

Success

And it can be learned. Try arriving at a cocktail party with just this one goal, Beck says: All I’m going to do is ask questions. And by all means, listen to music that revs you up—perhaps Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” or Cabane’s personal favorite, “Flying” from the 2003 movie Peter Pan.

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Is College Still Worth It?

Success

Yet college—in the traditional sense of a bachelor’s degree from a four-year institution of higher learning that a student pursues full time on campus—is still imaginatively linked with the supposed American Dream and assumed to be the one and only road to success. For example, how do kids own their learning?”. * * *.

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Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

Success

Starting a business wasn’t even on our minds when we first met in the summer of 2003. We got to see each other learn. We learned that difference was our superpower. Through Level Up lessons in each chapter, we want what we’ve learned to be of use to you as your own struggles are reflected in our story.

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

Allwork

Discover how coworking spaces can unlock opportunities for interaction and cooperation, leading to a vibrant and interconnected network that supports entrepreneurs and professionals in achieving their goals. And then there was another initiative in Vienna that started back in 2003. And that day was actually kind of interesting.