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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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After earning a degree in computer science, she worked in industries as wide-ranging as education, patent and trade, workforce development, and vacuum cleaner sales. It was only after she hosted her first guest that she realized that the hospitality industry wasn’t for her. “I And I told them, ‘Yes they will, watch.’ ”.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? Khaled was about 16 and DJing a party in Orlando, Florida where he spent his formative years, when his phone rang. It was from the phone line inside his little makeshift studio in his parents’ house. They sold clothes out of the trunk of their car.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

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I’ve seen everyone in my family do entrepreneurial things, whether it was reselling clothes they bought in the U.S., A guest appearance from one of the most popular voices in the industry— Jeffrey Gitomer —put Kelly’s show on the map. selling peanuts, or having a little restaurant,” he says. You did what you needed to do to survive.

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What Is a Good NPS Score?

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Net promoter score—or NPS—has gained popular use across industries. A word of caution: scores vary across industries and departments. Comparing scores across industries can mislead managers and entrepreneurs. This adoption owes to both the simplicity of the metric and its overall utility. And that’s it—away we go!

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The Big ‘Why’: Unraveling the Purpose of Work in a Changing World

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How technology is changing purpose at work The quickly changing landscape of the fourth industrial revolution, where technology is both supporting and disrupting how we work and live, has placed us in a unique position. It’s a privilege and a tremendous responsibility to be the guy who gets the phone call on somebody’s worst day.

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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Talks About the Art of Making Accommodations

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The picture was of a plywood chair designed in 1954 by Charles and Ray Eames, a couple synonymous with 20th-century industrial design. Industrial design is, as Gebbia defines it, “anything made by man that’s not art or architecture.” It’s the clothes we wear, the phones we talk on, the lights we see with and the cars we drive.

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Rebecca Minkoff: ‘I Never Set Out to Be a Rule Breaker’

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If I had taken the safe route and always done as I was told, when I was told, where I was told, I’m pretty sure I would still be answering the phones at my father’s office in Florida. There’s nothing wrong with working for my dad or answering phones; it’s just not what I’m meant to do. There was nothing overnight about it.