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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. “Alternative workers, who accounted for 15.7% of employment in 2019, grew at a rate higher than the average for overall employment,” the authors say.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. The name scribbled in the “From” section of the label was not one I recognized.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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The Peanut Butter and Jelly Approach to Growth

Harvard Business Review

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. This strategy reflects the " create, operate, trade " principle of Richard Foster, the former McKinsey executive who (full disclosure) is now lead board member at Innosight. billion in sales.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5%

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. The organization's ultimate aim is to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. In a 2001 interview with HBR, UPS’s then CEO Jim Kelly described the growth of the company: “For decades, we’ve been able to grow tremendously simply by expanding our core business geographically.