Sat.Feb 12, 2011 - Fri.Feb 18, 2011

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Leadership Pathways

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by Guest Author, Tom Cleveland , former Group EVP and Treasurer of VISA International. Some people are born leaders , others are molded by the best educational institutions our nation has to offer, but many often rise up from very humble beginnings to seize the mantle of leadership to achieve incredible results in the world around us. The pathway for developing leadership skills is not always smooth.

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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

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Borders Group Inc., gutted by the Internet, threatened by electronic books and plagued by inconsistent management - filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, 40 years after Borders started as a used bookstore on South State Street here in Ann Arbor, MI. To be sure, some see new opportunities in the problems facing Borders. “The way something is sold influences the way it is made, and the book industry has always been about bookstores,” said business book writer Seth Godin.

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The Greatest Risk to Your Business

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By Vanessa Hall, author of The Truth About Trust in Business. As a leader in business, you are familiar with the fact that you have risks that need to be managed or avoided completely. But let me ask you this – have you ever considered a breakdown of trust as the greatest risk to your business? If you’re shaking your head, you’re in the majority – but if you truly want to outshine and outstrip your competitors, if you want to significantly increase what I call the 3 R’s of trust – Results, Reten

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How many friends can you really have in your social network.

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Over the past decade, primatologists' work, studying social behavior in chimps, gorillas, macaques, bonobos and baboons, has led to a unifying theory that explains not only a huge range of behavior. Also, why our brains are so big and what their most essential work is. The theory, called the Machiavellian-intelligence or social-brain theory, holds that we rise from a lineage in which both individual and group success hinge on balancing the need to work with others with the need to hold our own a

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A Global Standard of Living Shift

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As emerging countries' middle class prosper, the standard of living falls in financially-stretched countries like the United States with a few exceptions. A recent jump in prices of commodities such as oil, crops, metals and other raw materials negatively affects the standard of living of America's middle class. These prices have risen due to strong global demand, particularly in emerging markets, and pockets of reduced supply.