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Guest Post: Talk is Cheap!

Lead on Purpose

I said to Allar , “Rather than be at each other’s throats as we sink, let’s work together – collaborate – and figure out how we’re going to get out of this mess…” In other words, I was ready to tear down the walls that separated the union and management, because I understood that we needed each other to survive.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. Thanks, Amit By Tanmay Vora , January 25, 2010 @ 7:18 pm Thanks Amit, for stopping by and commenting. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”,

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What's Next For Guangdong?

Harvard Business Review

The province's exports growth rate, which was 26% in 2010, fell to 22% in the first nine months of 2011, and it has continued to decline ever since. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010. It's difficult to say. The pressures are evident.

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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

And that's true in many areas: New devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques regularly get developed and incorporated into practice. The stimulus bill of 2009 allocated $30 billion for health care IT, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 allowed significant changes in the way Medicare pays for services.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. And Big Business did not even make those bets. That's before the Great Recession.