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Pink Slip Billionaires
You gotta love problems for the solutions they inspire. Here are some names you might recognize who were canned, laid off, or otherwise given the boot. They have joined the Pink-Slip Billionaires because instead of finding a new job, they launched their own careers.

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Pink Slip Billionaires
You gotta love problems for the solutions they inspire. Here are some names you might recognize who were canned, laid off, or otherwise given the boot. They have joined the Pink-Slip Billionaires because instead of finding a new job, they launched their own careers.

Mind Your P's and Q's
Some people might think billionaires don't have to impress anyone, but most of us still live by these rules.
Starting a business…Look before you leap...no really!
Are you a "forced entrepreneur?" Just in case you were wondering, a "forced entrepreneur" is someone that's been happily working in Corporate America until that pink slip arrived. So you're highly skilled, highly motivated and thought you would easily get a job somewhere else...but you're not sure that's what you want to do? Perhaps becoming an entrepreneur is where you would really like to go but are not sure where to start. This article helps address that dilemma for you.
Bouncing Back
Just because they found themselves on the wrong end of a pink slip doesn’t mean they were going to take their layoffs lying down.
Life can be good after getting laid off
You received a pink slip today. After your recover from shock, you feel shame and embarrassment. You are in denial and disbelief. You feel abandoned and overwhelmed and do not want to share this information with loved ones. You rush to the safety of home and have more shameful feelings. You want to crawl in a hole and cover yourself. You finally share the news with your family and they are surprised and disappointed, as well.

Hedging Your Bets
Anyone can grow an international business today because of all the tools that are available to them. In the next five years commerce and communication are going to merge globally and many billionaires will be made. It will be up to you to be part of this new group of entrepreneurs and billionaires and make the next 10 years be the years that set you apart from the crowd.
BOOK REVIEW: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (By Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead Books, 2009, ISBN# 978-1-59448-884-9)
In his new book Dan Pink (1) consolidates some major social science research around human motivation into clear, straightforward discoveries and (2) challenges the current thinking and practice in the vast majority of our organizations. Employees in the more complex, knowledge-based jobs of the emerging post modern economy do not respond well to "carrot & stick" forms of motivation (Pink refers to this as "Motivation 2.0"). Rather, they are propelled to deliver superior performance by three principal motivators: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. ("Motivation 3.0").
How To Make More Than $100K Per Year With Outdoor Billboards
With umemployment hovering at its highest levels in decades, many people are concerned about job security and tired of living with the risk of receiving a pink slip with little or no warning. But how can an individual replace their earnings of $40,000 to $100,000 per year? One option may be to consider the outdoor billboard business.
10 Cities Offering Top Unemployment Benefits
For some people, receiving a pink slip may be disheartening, but not that surprising due to the present economic situation of the country. No company or employee is safe from massive restructuring and downsizing these days, which is why it is very important to have a basic understanding of unemployment benefits. It is also equally vital to learn the policies involved in unemployment eligibility before migrating to another area because the scope of these benefits varies significantly from one state to another.
Robots Want Us To Be Happy. How CRM’s Can Improve Productivity & Job Satisfaction.
“Humans are not horses”, Daniel Pink smugly proclaims to an engrossed audience during his popular TED talk “What Really Motivates Workers”. On stage and in his famous book “Drive”, Pink explains the differences between algorithmic and heuristic tasks and concludes that workers need different motivations for different types of tasks. He asserts that humans tend to thrive naturally in work environments where the majority of tasks are heuristic, and thus require fewer incentives.

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