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President Reagan is Still Teaching Me About Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

2. . ** PLEASE NOTE If you are thinking about moving on to the next website, or clicking to another part of my site because of your feelings about the politics of President Reagan, please don’t. The lesson I am about to share isn’t about politics or partisan-ship, or any of those things. ** It is about caring.

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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. I connected again with him on Facebook through the online version of that same political group, and I let him know what I do for a living. Who do you think I will do business with?

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

Think this is a bit of an issue for our economic and political future? And, in 2010, Arne Duncan announced that 95% of American college students in language classes were taking European languages. With the rise of China, India and other Asian countries, what languages do we teach in school? So does Amelia Friedman. should ours!

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, Kari Liuhto argues that the role of Estonia as the Soviet Union’s “political guinea pig” may have in a perverse way helped to provide citizens of the country with many of the entrepreneurial characteristics that are serving it so well today.

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Tough Dilemmas for Companies on Campaign Spending

Harvard Business Review

Should companies use funds from the corporate treasury to advocate directly for or against political candidates in contested elections? Should we be passive and avoid such spending, or be active and get involved in partisan politics? The issues arise in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v.

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Take the Government Leadership Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. Weren't all cabinet hires just political decisions? What I discovered, much to my shock, was that at least in this one case, a governor wanted to make hiring decisions based not on politics, but on leadership talent. You might be thinking.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. billion in 2010. In 2010, it overtook Japan to become the second-largest manufacturer, and its foreign-exchange reserves became the largest in the world. exports increased by only 11%.

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