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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

When he heard that Kublai was just printing his own money, he saw his path to riches and summoned the Ambassador from Kublai’s court, demanding to see the new paper currency. He demanded that everyone accept these new notes as currency. Awesome was bankrupt, his markets frozen from the lack of a credible medium of exchange.

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Your No Fear Career

YoungUpstarts

There are demanding clients, bosses who bully, conniving coworkers, and people who play politics. But how do we have faith in our company and in ourselves when demands are coming at us so fast and the future seems so uncertain? Running on a hamster wheel, we try to find our place in the fastest changing market the world has ever known.

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The Fascinating Aura of Mystery, Awe, and Power Surrounding A Business

Growthink Blog

Supply and demand. I would combine this definition with one of my favorite lessons from my long ago MBA marketing class – namely that in a modern marketplace there is zero difference between " actual " and " perceived " value. Oxford defines mystique as "a fascinating aura of mystery, awe, and power surrounding someone or something."

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Jennifer Lopez and the NDA

Growthink Blog

Supply and demand. I would combine this definition with one of my favorite lessons from my long ago MBA marketing class – namely that in a modern marketplace there is zero difference between " actual " and " perceived " value. Oxford defines mystique as "a fascinating aura of mystery, awe, and power surrounding someone or something."

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. Who Needs the Stock Market? And oh yeah, nobody has made a dime in those public markets than the above parties in eleven long years.

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Watch Out for Seven Traits Of A Dominant Visionary

YoungUpstarts

Demanding work environments and brilliant CEOs go hand in hand. Hard-core leaders on a mission are compelled to achieve their goal and demand the highest level of performance. Elon Musk and Steve Jobs among others are famous for handing out monumental demands peppered with ferocious criticism if performance was not to their liking.