Are you running a business? Then you might want to offer your skills to emerging entrepreneurs the world over. Find out about the difference Bpeace (Bpeace blog) is making in our businesses and the lives of many Afghans —
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Where are women entrepreneurs rising fastest? Forget the advanced country of the United States! It’s Sao Paulo (related article here), Manila and Mumbai where women are leapfrogging to business ownership. What are they selling? Think simplistically: mangoes and home-made blouses.
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Whether male or female, we can all glean lessons from the likes of the late Steve Jobs. For example:
1. Push people out of their comfort zones
“He was someone who did not read the polls, but changed the polls by giving people what he was certain they wanted and needed before they knew it;
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And the winners are: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni rights campaigner Tawakkul Karman (pictured).
All of them have been recognized by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”
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Photo courtesy: ©Laurel Delaney 2010, “Apple store, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL U.S.A.”
Always giving his best work to the world, Steve Jobs died October 5, 2011 (1955-2011). His death triggered a remembrance to reading a wonderful On Excellence column by Tom Peters in 1993 (I saved all of his hard copy columns back then that were published in the Chicago Tribune –
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Our sister organization, The Global Small Business Blog, under its parent organization GlobeTrade.com, just published their latest monthly e-newsletter, “Borderbuster,” (Issue No. 116 – sign up here) and it is only fitting for this blog post to mention the quote that was featured under the Wind Behind Your Sail section:
“We make a living by what we get,
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Below are three places to study online for personal enrichment and professional success. Most of these are complimentary.
1. Open Culture (www.openculture.com)
• Free cultural and educational media on the web.
2. Harvard University Extension School (www.extension.harvard.edu/openlearning)
• Free,
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Read one woman’s journey — Sikh-American activist and filmmaker Valarie Kaur (pictured) — discovers how challenging the status quo exacts a toll. In it, she works to heal her divided nation.
It requires humanizing our opponents so that we work to transform them,
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Nancy Schuring of New Jersey’s (U.S.A.) Devon Fine Jewelry fell in love with Madagascar while gem hunting. As a result, she started a scholarship foundation — The Devon Foundation — to help its people.
During the summer of 2008,
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) along with several multinational companies are launching the Women in Trade Initiative to increase the participation of Pakistani women in the international trade sector.
“This initiative is part of the United States’ commitment to the people of Pakistan to support women’s empowerment,” said Dr Marilyn Wyatt,
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