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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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I was equipped with both and strong leadership skills that could help me succeed anywhere. “If She purchased a second location from her mother in 2012 and has since opened one more, giving her three locations in New Jersey. “My My goal is to build a national chain,” Morales says. So, I did.”.

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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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Launched in San Francisco in 2012, this movement especially appeals to introverts. The goal is not just to find books that readers might enjoy, but also that offer them a new and helpful perspective on their own lives and concerns, without hitting so close to home as to be painful in an unproductive way,” Allred advises.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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Yet, despite all these technologies, the unique skills that come naturally to us as humans— emotional intelligence , empathy and social awareness to name a few—still reign supreme. Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” She moved on in 2012 and founded Mina Shah Enterprises the following year, self-funding with income from consulting. trillion.”

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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The goal is to increase capability—whether through offering new products or services, expanding in capacity or geographically, or cross-promoting,” she says. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. In 2012 I passed along between 35 and 40% of the work that came my way.

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7 Questions to Answer Before Starting a New Business

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If you have a product or service that needs lots of customers in order for you to reach your financial goals, then you’ll need a high-volume marketing plan. Knowing this is fundamental to your plan and can help you confirm that your financial goals are realistic. How long will it likely take to get there? Know your North Star.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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It’s a scientific skill she’s honed throughout decades of research and practice, one that has earned her the title of “human lie detector.” Growing up, she began to develop the skill of how to read facial expressions more out of desperation than curiosity. “My Särnblad is in high demand for her abilities, and rightly so.