分类目录归档：entrepreneur
I'd like to take you back about seven years in my life.
Friday afternoon,
a few days before Christmas 2009,
I was the director of operations
at a consumer products company in San Francisco,
and I was
You've all been in a bar, right?
(Laughter)
But have you ever gone to a bar
and come out with a $200 million business?
That's what happened to us about 10 years ago.
We'd had a terrible day.
We had th
I love airplanes.
Oh -- I love airplanes.
So, when I went to college in the late 90s,
it was obvious that I was going to study aerospace.
And you wouldn't believe how many people told me,
"Oh no, not
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If we traveled back to the year 800 BC,
in Greece, we would see that merchants whose businesses failed
were forced to sit in the marke
Today, what I want to share with you is something that happened to me,
actually, around four weeks ago, it happened.
Words were said to me that I never thought I would ever hear it said to my face
by
Recently, the leadership team of an American supermarket chain
decided that their business needed to get a lot more efficient.
So they embraced their digital transformation with zeal.
Out went the tea
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I was not one of those kids
that knew exactly what they wanted to do when they were growing up.
In the last 15 years of my career,
I've been an English teacher, atto
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A traditional job interview
is basically a one-sided, high pressure interrogation,
almost guaranteed to create
significant psychological strain
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Of America's 500 largest companies, only 42 have female CEOs.
And if you look at other countries,
the data is similar, and in some cases, worse.
And, of course, there are a number of fac
so today I'm gonna tell you about some
people who didn't move out of their
neighborhoods
the first one is happening right here in
Chicago
Brenda palms farmer was hired to help
ex-convicts reenter soci