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It has been five years since the \"buy-out\" from the organization I worked at for almost 28 years. In Part Two, I will take a look at some of the decisions made at the time to see if they were the correct ones.

#buyout #leaving #goodbye #retrospective

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#buyout #leaving #goodbye #retrospective

Foolish Thoughts #377: The Buy Out - Five Years Later (Part Two)

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