Today in Global Small Business: How Leaders Can Chart a Course For Their Organizations and Guide Their Teams Through Tumultuous Times

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Microsoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed in a COVID-19 economy.
• The coronavirus first hit large, globally connected cities, but is now spreading rapidly throughout the South and in smaller places.
• Quote of the week:  "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.  It overcomes almost everything, even nature." – John D. Rockefeller
• The pandemic has dramatically changed the world we know. Here’s how leaders can chart a course for their organizations and guide their teams through tumultuous times.
• Mark your calendar now for next Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® #wegginar 8/12 at 11AM CT.
• Everyone worldwide can now sign up for our 5th Annual Global Small Business Forum held VIRTUALLY on October 16, 2020 (morning program).  Whether you are based in South Africa, Ireland or the United States, you may join us!  Hooray!  To learn more and to register, visit, http://globalsmallbusinessforum.com.