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Donated $2 million to Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 relief fund 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/NVN7SbdFPY

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What is a real job anyway? Here are some examples:

The Wildlife Keeper

Photo by @amivitale. Wildlife keeper Kamara has spent 10 years at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (@lewa_wildlife) and is an expert in caring for orphaned animals, from baby rhinos to lions and now he is working at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary (@r.e.s.c.u.e) where he is raising an orphaned baby rhino but also gives love to the elephants when they need it. The team will work to rehabilitate these orphaned and abandoned elephants and reunite them with their wild herds. Read more about Reteti in my @NatGeo story: https://tinyurl.com/kvopc69 You can help support the great work happening here by visiting Sarara Camp (@sararacamp) and Lewa or supporting the organizations working directly with the local communities. Follow all of us, @lewa_wildlife, @r.e.s.c.u.e, @sararacamp and @amivitale to support and learn more about these initiatives. @nrt_kenya @kenyawildlifeservice @tusk_org @sandiegozoo @conservationorg @natgeocreative @thephotosociety @nature_africa #elephants #saveelephants #retetielephants #ecotourism #stoppoaching #kenya #northernkenya #magicalkenya #whyilovekenya #africa #everydayafrica #photojournalism #amivitale

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Photo by @mattiasklumofficial for @natgeo Deadly encounter... Not really... People frequently explain to me that I have a dangerous job. Working close to elephants, tigers, polar bears, leopards, lions, sharks, illegal logging operations and venomous snakes such as this beauty. In my line of work doing serious research and reading nature well is key! It'll get my closer to my subjects and it has so far kept me alive! During a @natgeo assignment in the republic of Congo I managed, with kind assistance from Samuel, (my camera assistant at the time) and Zoltan (a great herpethologist), to close in on this beautiful and highly venomous banded water cobra! It resulted in a series of unique images of this rarely seen species. Go to @mattiasklumofficial if you want see some "result-pictures". Photo by #samuelsvensäter/Tirragrande Productions #grateful #teamwork #determination #respectnatur #watercobra #congo #cobra #snake #conservation #rainforest #respect #photooftheday #protectbiodiversity #bestjobintheworld #instagood @irisalexandrov @mattiasklumcollection @thephotosociety @natgeo

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More interesting options here: So You Want My Job / Trade on www.ArtOfManliness.com 

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Optimism // Beautiful world

How Bill and Melinda Gates have tried to make Warren Buffett's vision of optimism a reality - and how you can too https://t.co/EvLnEX1i07 pic.twitter.com/zbSbV642Ci

— CNN International (@cnni) February 14, 2017

Only 1% know poverty has halved since 1990. Optimism in pessimistic times. Read Gates Annual Letter – https://t.co/dKc994XAzq via @billgates

— Carlos A. Reck (@yuyay) February 14, 2017

Announcing the 2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies—from @Snap to @Glossier #FCMostInnovative https://t.co/FCIXTrYzaI pic.twitter.com/HVQS89WwGs

— Fast Company (@FastCompany) February 13, 2017

Announcing the 2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies—from @Amazon to @Chobani #FCMostInnovative https://t.co/Betg3uxDck pic.twitter.com/dvvHhBkFrU

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She's the first woman to travel to every country in the world https://t.co/OfwVnh3Hf3 pic.twitter.com/79uj49TunQ

— CNN (@CNN) February 10, 2017

All these countries have had a woman leader before the U.S.: https://t.co/7bfYfLjDcW pic.twitter.com/KaY1YPmFIN

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Ethical Capitalism for the person and the state

Decisions that buyers, workers, and entrepreneurs make can make work and business so much better.


Broad-minded and Large-hearted policies can make the economy work even better for everyone.

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"Pleasure isn't the opposite of work; it's a key ingredient for successful work."

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We're in this together

Ìrọ̀rùn igi ni ìrọ̀rùn ẹyẹ. / The comfort of the tree is what assures the comfort of the bird (on it).

[Pursue the common good, always]

— Yoruba Proverbs (@yoruba_proverbs) July 8, 2016

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"-- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  (Applause.)
     If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable .. system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
     The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things .. we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. "
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Tell Me Your Dream

He travelled across the world and asked:

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You tell me your dream, and I'll tell you mine - is a classic song and jazz favourite.  

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You have to see this 4-minute clip of life in Nigeria. It would seem that the traveller saw everything. Almost.  ?

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"Big opportunities open up when you build relationships with the right people, invest your time in your highest leverage activities and are a person who solves problems."

in Making Your First Million Is Easy if you Follow These Five Steps
At least follow two ;)
What are your two?  Mine are...
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Because traffic is killing, because 5-days a week is so 20th century, because why is there a crater in the middle of the highway, because we may really need to make the meetings snappy, because weren't all these gadgets supposed to raise human productivity, because whatever happened to just chilling, because let's spread the work around so we won't have so many unemployed...

It's Thursday. We're almost there.
Then rinse, repeat.

Whose idea was the 40-hour workweek, anyway?  Hint, it's why we celebrate Worker's Day, aka my birthday :)

And how long before 40-hours-a-week goes the way of the pocket calculator? Hint: as soon as people decide they can tolerate the change.  Who would you be without a job, without the predictability of a daily commute?  Everybody's doing it, so it must be right, right?  

 Even CNBC, which must surely hold the usual mainstream business media bias, snuck in a story, courtesy of Larry Page's comments
soooo 
Next time you get a query about skipping work to get that extra sleep, play with the kids, enjoy the neighbourhood, or just get a slow haircut and manicure, just point to this page or this one and tell'em: I'm in the Future.

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Sort of.
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Modern Leadership

10 Reasons Why Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Is What A Modern Leader Should Be, written by Maya Ammar for scoopempire.

Every now and then comes a man that changes the face of a certain industry, think Steve Jobs in technology and Mohamed Ali in fighting. However, not every so often comes a man who changes the face of true leadership.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of its star emirate, Dubai, is the man to look up to. Here is why we think every modern leader should follow Sheikh Mohammed’s footsteps: 

1. He shaped Dubai

What Dubai is now is the result of the relentless effort of hundreds of thousands people, but let’s face it, Sheikh Mohammed is who set the whole thing in motion. From Dubai Media City and Dubai International Finance Center to the Palm Islands and Burj Khalifa, he oversaw countless projects that has put Dubai on the map of leading cities in the world. Nobody can deny that Dubai would be nowhere where it is right now if it weren’t for this man. 

2. He believes in the power of the young

It’s a concept we much lack and need in other Middle Eastern countries. If you consider his team and Dubai’s governmental employees, you will find that they are mostly made up of young men and women. Sheikh Mohammed believes in the fresh ideas and impalpable energy that you can only find in the youth. 

3. He’s always aiming to be number one

“I want Dubai to be number one, not in the region, but in the world. Number one in everything: high education, health, housing. [I want to] Give my people the highest way of living.”
To Sheikh Mohammed, there is only one way Dubai can go, and that is the way to being the number one city in the world.

4. He shows appreciation

In every occasion and in every speech he makes, he never fails to show true and deep appreciation to each and every one of his team and employees. He always reminds them how big of a contribution they are making to Dubai’s development on every level. 

5. He has zero tolerance for corruption

From the famous 2001 arrest incidence of the head of Dubai Customs back then, Obaid Saqr bin-Busit, to many other arrests of high profile officials, Sheikh Mohammed has always shown that when it comes to corruption, no one is above the law.

6. He knows how to use social media

He is one of the most active world leaders on social media. And instead of hiring someone to manage his social media for him, Sheikh Mohammed takes to personally posting on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

7. He has time for his hobbies

You would think that with his relentless efforts to make Dubai rise even higher that he has no time for practicing anything in his free time. However, the ruler of Dubai is an avid equestrian, winning the FEI World Endurance Championship in 2012, and a recognized poet in Arabic.

8. He’s a visionary

Looking ahead is not easy when you’re leading an entire nation, but Sheikh Mohammed makes it seems like an easy task. He’s already selling the future, making plans for not just the next year, but the next decade to ensure the brightest future for the UAE.

9.  He gives back

From launching campaigns to provide the less privileged with a chance of education to providing treatment and health services for the visually impaired, Sheikh Mohammed has launched and funded many charities and organizations.
He also uses his accounts to raise awareness for great causes, most recent of which is the UAE Compassion campaign for winter relief of Syrian refugees.

10. He places high value on the environment

The UAE’s record breaking and rising to fame didn’t stop Sheikh Mohamed from focusing on the environment. Burj Khalifa’s ‘green’ initiative, the landscaping is irrigated using a unique condensate collection system. Water from the tower’s cooling equipment is recovered, providing an estimated 15 million gallons of water a year, enough to fill 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools and this water is used to irrigate the 11-hectare green oasis that surrounds the foot of the tower.

 The Author,

Maya Ammar

She is passionate about life, with a severe case of wanderlust. She’s an avid sitcom watcher. Her life’s theme song is Barbra Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade”.

 

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I would add this to what 'MODERN' Leadership means to me: Feminine, in touch with its feminine side, inclusive of female representation.  That's all.  :)
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Poverty and women

Women earn less.  Women do a lot of unpaid labour.  Men enjoy a lot of unpaid labour.  There are few women at the highest-earning levels.   Many boards should have more women.  Many marriages do not help women as much as they help men.  For instance, most homes in Nigeria are owned by the men, and not co-owned by the women. 

Here is the US data on women's earnings:

The poverty class is 60% female.  The wealthy end is about 30% female.  OK.