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    Risk:To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50%: SHORT STORY # 24. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
    Risk:To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50%: SHORT STORY # 24. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
    Risk:To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50%: SHORT STORY # 24. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
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    Risk:To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50%: SHORT STORY # 24. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

    By Alla P. Gakuba

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    That was beginning of the 1970s when the author started her engineering career. Surprisingly, she was hired, but she was the 1st woman structural engineer in a company. Men engineers revolted, they thought that now their engineering career is going down—a woman is going to design a bridge. 

    The first 3-4 days the author was re

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnow-How Skills
    Release dateDec 4, 2016
    ISBN9781943131549
    Risk:To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50%: SHORT STORY # 24. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

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      Risk:To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50% - Alla P. Gakuba

      Book Title

      BOOKS BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD

      Trilogy: motivational nonfiction short stories

      to teach logic, creativity, new skills, and

      self-esteem that would change readers lives:

      What Is Life? What Is Happiness?

      (Book 1)

      A Person Is a Product of Time, Place,

      and Circumstances

      (Book 2)

      How to Design Innovations and Solve

      Business and Personal Problems

      (Book 3)

      Fleurons

      Books are available on Amazon, in bookstores, and worldwide wherever books sold. Visit author’s website for free stories, extras and much more at www.allaPgakuba.com

      Fleurons

      At the end of this Short Story please see

      A LIST OF ALL INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES FROM NONFICTION SERIES #1 - #60

      BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD

      Book Title

      Copyright © 2017 by Alla P. Gakuba, BSCE, MAS, PhD

      All rights reserved.

      SHORT STORY #24: Risk: To Take or Not to Take? Or, Once You Take a Risk, Your Probability of Success Goes from 0% to 50%

      This is a motivational short story in the series of nonfiction short stories, #1– #60, by Alla P. Gakuba, BSCE, MAS, PhD. First edition.

      Logo Knowhow Skills

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      Published by Know-How Skills, San Francisco Bay,

      California, USA;

      www.allapgakuba.com

      EPUB: ISBN 978–1–943131–54–9

      1. Business & Economics – Workplace Culture. 2. Business

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