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What Is Your Great Opportunity? - Combine Preparation with Favorable Circumstances

Many people haven’t yet found a great opportunity. In some cases they don’t even know that they are missing one. What a shame! Just in case you know someone like that, let me describe what I mean by a great opportunity so you can pass along the information: A great opportunity lifts you and those around you to greater heights of accomplishment, connection, and satisfaction. In the abstract those characteristics may do little to inform you beyond increasing your interest. Let me share three personal experiences to explain what I mean.

Primary topic: Management Skills
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You Can Build a Better Community One Entrepreneur and One Breakthrough at a Time

I believe that you can make a huge contribution to your community through what you do. Let me describe how some individuals have greatly helped others. Can a single person make a big difference in society? Of course! Naturally, no one can do all that is required alone. Others will either decide they like what they see and follow, or the benefits will be so great that they will reach even those who never hear about the difference-maker.

Primary topic: Management Skills
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Breaking 100 -- Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance

Regardless of ability and experience, most people wish they could accomplish more in doing whatever matters most to them. The struggling golfer dreams of breaking 100, a score that would be a nightmare for a good golfer. The solid B student fondly contemplates the satisfaction that a single A would bring. Top performers have different kinds of goals. They may seek to pass their best prior accomplishment on every attempt. Their eyes might even be fixed on surpassing all others, feeling intense disquiet until they do.

Primary topic: Management Skills
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Learn Business Online from Top Performers

When I was in graduate school, my classmates didn’t always like the way that the courses were taught. After leaving such a class, they often quoted an old maxim: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” I didn’t take that saying literally until one day a law professor who was held in the highest esteem by scholars mentioned that he had lost every appellate case he had ever prosecuted before turning to full-time teaching. That was pretty a dismal performance considering how well he knew the law.

Primary topic: Management Skills
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