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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Yahoo is one of the best examples of failing to acquire other exiting companies and failing to maximize on their own exit,” Smith recalls. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. And sadly, in 2008 Yahoo turned down an offer to be acquired by Microsoft for $44.6 billion.”

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Why Networking Is Not Overrated

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As the 2016 version of the study stated, “Women also get less access to the people, input, and opportunities that accelerate careers.” Carol Bartz, former CEO of Yahoo, says the issue is that “women spend more time doing and less time networking.”. Women are either not networking or are networking ineffectively.

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Job Growth Slowed in 2017; Implications for the Economy in 2018

Small Business Labs

economy created fewer jobs in 2017 than in 2016 and economic growth was moderate.  job growth slowed in 2017 to an average of 171,000 jobs created per month, down from an average of 186,000 jobs created each month in 2016. job growth comes from the Yahoo Finance article Challenge for Trump: Job Growth is Slowing.

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Blockchain In Recruiting: Will That Impact A Recruiter's Job?

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Safe Data Storage Though the largest data breach was uncovered in late 2016-2017 when Yahoo reported that hackers had stolen information from at least 3 billion user accounts worldwide, it has been seen time and again how companies with more than 1000 employees are prime targets of cyber-attacks.

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

Small Business Labs

Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting. In 2016, that number grew by four percentage points to 43%. In 2016, 31% were found to be doing the same. IBM, of course, isn't the only well known example of a company reducing or eliminating telecommuting.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. She started everything from scratch.

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