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How The Financial Crisis Saw Support For Populists Rise

The Horizons Tracker

“The far right … [was] able to attract a number of voters, middle-class or even slightly higher than middle-class people, who had mortgages and otherwise probably wouldn’t have voted for the far right,” the researchers explain. of the vote in 2006, this soared to 17% in 2010 and 20% in 2014. A lending boom.

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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class). Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. In fact, emotional intelligence is viewed by some as a better predictor of success than the old hallmark, IQ. The good news?

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Over the years I have come to believe that “ having class &# is synonymous with demonstrating a penchant for humility over bravado. In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility.

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A Leadership Key To Success: Don’t Do Second Things First

Terry Starbucker

He helped me in a lot of ways because his class was just so darn tough. Mary’s University in San Antonio – I wrote another piece about him and his remarkable teaching methods for Rosa Say’s blog, way way back in 2006). But most of the time, I’ve taken on the doozy first. And I have Brother George to thank for it.