Esther Newman thinks of her community as an extension of her family, and as founder and executive director of Leadership Montgomery (LM), she has been the driving force behind recruiting more than 1,700 local leaders into her extended family over the past two decades. A master recruiter and business-to-business matchmaker, Newman loves engaging talent.  

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Sam Weaver, Jr., grew up believing he could control his own destiny. With only a high school education, he worked his way through the ranks of the retail automotive business to bcome partner/owner of Chevy Chase Cars in Bethesda, Maryland. But his entreprenuerial spirits didn't rest there. 

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One measure of a successful entrepreneur is how well he exploits his own talents. By drawing upon everything from his environment, using his keen perception to ignite a creative imagination and encouraging collaboration the entrepreneur guides his vision into a profitable, game-changing innovation.  Read about how tiny Weatherbug innovated to dominate the weather information industry.

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Taking Work-Related Stress Levels Down a Notch

When Larry Shulman was in law school, his father told him the only way he would ever get into a law firm was to start his own.  "My father didn't believe that was ever going to happen," Shulman said.  "He was truly frustrated because he expected more of me."

After being turned down by 44 law firms and despite his father's lack of confidence in him, Shulman started his own firm practicing real estate law.  As a matter of fact, he went far beyond his father's expectations by becoming the inadvertent founder and current senior partner in Montgomery County's largest law firm, Shulman Rogers, in Potomac.

Shulman said he never earned good grades in law school until he married after his second year.  Suddenly he was responsible for someone else, and he buckled down.  "My father looked at my grades and said, "You know, it's a damn shame that you didn't get married in kindergarten.'"  CLICK HERE for the PDF file of the full article by Edwards A. Holliday as it appears in the October/November issue of 270inc Business Magazine.

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