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Tulsa 2024 Olympics? Oklahoma’s Second-Largest City Inquires About Hosting Games

By The Huffington Post News Editors

TULSA, Okla. — Buoyed by its success hosting a major fishing tournament this winter, Oklahoma’s second-largest city is now dreaming of something faster, higher, stronger: the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Local officials acknowledge the idea is a bit far-fetched, but Tulsa was among several small cities that received letters from the U.S. Olympic Committee asking whether they might be interested in hosting the games.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

New Job? New Company? Here's How To Make The Leap

By Erika Andersen, Contributor I recently had the pleasure of working with Joann Lublin at the Wall Street Journal for an article in her column, Your Executive Career. It started as a conversation about folks Joann came to call “extreme switchers” – people who make big changes in their careers, especially at a senior level.  She ended up profiling 3 of our clients: Tom Newman, who went from being a business strategist at to running Interactive One, the digital arm of Radio One; Maryam Banikarim, who moved from TV (NBCUniversal) to print (), at the same time becoming Gannett’s first-ever CMO; and Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, an Olympic gold medalist who left the U.S. Olympic Committee to run WICT, a cable industry women’s association.

From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/04/17/new-job-new-company-heres-how-to-make-the-leap/