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5 Traits of a Next-Level Entrepreneur

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Whether you’re starting out on the floor selling a physical product like I did or you’re the CEO of an agency selling talented employees, you need to know how to make a sale. This article was published in March 2016 and has been updated. The ability to sell something is absolutely necessary to running a business at any stage.

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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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Jamie Fiore Higgins worked on Wall Street for nearly 20 years—from 1998 to 2016—and by the end of her career, she’d amassed a small fortune. By 2016, she was making 40 times more than her house cleaner and 10 times more than her doctor. They all said to suck it up, push through the pain and persevere.

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When Nature Calls, Boston Harbor Now CEO Kathy Abbott Answers

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Created in 2016, Boston Harbor Now is a merger of two nonprofit organizations—Boston Harbor Island Alliance and Boston Harbor Association. I did everything from picking up the trash on the beach every morning to giving talks and walks,” she says. I hadn’t grown up with any money. National parks are too big.

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Don’t Be Adidas: Making Better Decisions Fast Is Important For Business Leadership

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Even Ye’s own talent agency dropped him before Adidas. A Change.org petition set up by the Campaign Against Antisemitism urging Adidas to sever ties with Ye had gathered 169,100 signatures by October 25. . Yet Adidas waited much, much longer than other companies that cut ties with Ye.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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They are large and small companies that have us fired up about the cool ways they are innovating and leveraging technology. Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting. Fast forward to now, and No.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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In 2016, he co-created the Warmest Winter project, which created coats that doubled as sleeping bags for the homeless. What we ended up agreeing on was that merchandise would be the best way to monetize my music. That idea ended up snowballing,” Chance says. “I Chance the Rapper never had a Plan B. They make you a better person.

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This Old Marketing Farewell Episode: Sometimes the End Is a Beginning

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RR: I would point to two things: The first is when I gave up on climbing the corporate ladder and decided to join friends at Crownpeak (a tech startup) to work with something I could be passionate about and love doing. A few parting thoughts … Back in 2016, Seth Godin wrote a post called Transitions. Click To Tweet.