Business conditions are forever changing. You need to reconsider your strategies and business models constantly and adjust them where necessary.

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The Monk and the Riddle

In this critically acclaimed bestseller, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice - to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience, satisfaction, and joy - will be embraced by anyone who wants success to come not just from what they do, but from who they are.

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We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

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