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Take Twelve: Power and Priority: A Mother and Daughter Founding Team Builds an Empire
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
According to the US Department of Commerce, the number of women-owned businesses grew by 44% between 1997 and 2007, twice as fast as men-owned firms. We have grown accustomed to father-son founding teams through history. On the other hand, we don’t know the exact number of successful mother-daughter teams of entrepreneurs.
Is Your Brilliant Personality Killing Your Business?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
“Manners Maketh Man” was our school motto. I was so young I couldn’t even read when this was said during our assemblies but I came to understand what it meant early on. We could be the greatest at what we did but the way in which we interacted with one another spoke more about our greatness than our intellectual or physical ability demonstrated during debates, competitions, and daily activities.
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Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?
Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?
Years ago I was chatting with a more senior executive in Corporate America. I mentioned my love of medicine and its integration with business and my dislike of the more tedious financial reports. She immediately said I should focus on developing skills in the accounting and financial aspects of my work, leaving aside my forte as I shouldn’t focus on my strengths but on my weaknesses, she said.
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