Business opportunities are rarely found across the street. It is no longer easy to find them without traveling, often to places where personal security risks are high. These dangerous places are not thousand of miles away, sometimes it is enough to mistake the route from an office to another within a city, to find ourselves suddenly in no man's land, exposed to kidnap or assault.

Many argue that the violence ruling today in so many parts of the world, generated by crime or political conflicts, is way above anything that could be experienced in a training camp. However, as in any subject, it is better to be prepared.

Source: BNet

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