Stories like these make me realize a lot of IT leaders are thinking differently these days.

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It took Southern skies to make me realize that I'm causing myself this pain.

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"Being involved in that and ... getting to understand the city made me realize that the impact I could make here was so much greater than at a boring real estate economic research firm back home, " the 23-year-old said.

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This has helped me realize that quick reactionary decisions that leaders make when in the cross hairs of a financial crisis sometimes do more harm than good.

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As a wealth manager and financial advisor, I was committed to working on behalf of my clients, the people who entrusted me to make good decisions, to protect and grow their investments, to allow them to realize their goals.

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One side benefit, at least for me, is that since the app encourages you to make a judgement about each message, you quickly realize that many of those mailing lists that you have subscribed to (many through incentive or manipulation) are extraneous.

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