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Sahar Hashemi shares six insights that should be better known, drawing from her experiences as an entrepreneur and business leader.

Sahar Hashemi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Sahar Hashemi OBE has enjoyed a successful career as an entrepreneur, bestselling author and business thought leader. Initially forging her success as the Co-Founder and former CEO of Coffee Republic, the UK’s first American-style coffee bar chain, Sahar has since built great authority as a business leader and earned an appointment of OBE for her services to the UK economy and charity. Now the Co-Founder of Buy Women Built and hired as a leading keynote speaker, Sahar is commended for her ability to build more creative, customer-centric and resilient workplaces in which a “can do” spirit is paramount. The invisible economy of women-built brands www.buywomenbuilt.com Cluelessness as a competitive advantage https://aicomo.com/advantages-of-being-clueless/ Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://julias-books.com/2020/03/12/book-review-mans-search-for-meaning-by-viktor-e-frankl/ Why telling people to dream big is so misguided https://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/3fmaay/why_telling_kids_to_dream_big_is_a_big_con_our/ The benefit of ice cold showers every morning…

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