Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (Book Review)

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    Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and…

  • Whistleblowing: Who To Tell

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    You’re a whistleblower if you are a worker and choose to report certain kinds of wrongdoing in a business. This will usually be something you have seen at work, although this is not always the case.  Image – free for commercial use The wrongdoing, such as fraud, that you disclose…

  • Winding Down Your Career As You Think About Retirement

    Winding Down Your Career As You Think About Retirement

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    I just turned 54 years old and I have been thinking about what retirement could look like. Are you planning on retiring soon? Perhaps you’re even thinking about early retirement! As you start to look ahead to your post-working life, it makes sense to start easing yourself into it. Many…

  • 336 Ted Seides: How the world’s elite money managers lead and invest

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    About Ted Seides Ted Seides, CFA created Capital Allocators LLC to explore best practices in the asset management industry. He launched the Capital Allocators podcast in 2017 and the show reached five million downloads in January 2021. Barron’s, Business Insider, Forbes, and Value Walk each named it among the top…

  • The bodies of 215 children have been found in a residential school ran by the catholic church

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    It was cultural genocide. The Catholic church and the Canadian government colluded to deprive the First Nations kids of their culture. On May 27, 2021, the bodies of 215 First Nations children had been discovered buried under the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The school was run…

  • 4 Tips to Starting Up a Brick and Mortar Business in 2021

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    Whether you have products to sell or services to offer, you’ll most probably need some headquarters to operate from. Starting up a business, you should try and combine in-store sales while sustaining an online presence and marketing strategies. With the help of modern marketing techniques, you can increase store traffic…