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UNCTAD Report Argues For A New Approach To Tackling Financial Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

A paper from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) argues that this monetary and fiscal policy could make the global recession worse and inflict damage that exceeds that seen during both the financial crisis of 2008 and the Covid pandemic. Faltering strategy. This is a matter of policy choices and political will.

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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

Kevin Eikenberry

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B is a book that illuminates a process developed by Stan and his organization to help individual leaders draw out their core values and build greater commitment to organizational success. This is fast becoming one of the most talked about business books of the year, and for some very good reasons.

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Employee Engagement: 2010 Research Insights

Michael Lee Stallard

In January, our friends at The Conference Board published a report entitled “I Can’t Get No … Job Satisfaction, That Is.&# The report’s subtitle, “America’s Unhappy Workers,&# captured the essence of The Conference Board’s message. Below, I’ll explain.

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Featured Instigator: Will Lukang

Lead Change Blog

At one point in his career, he reports the strangest question he was asked in a job interview was, “Why do you want my job?” The best moment in his career occurred in 2008, when he recommended a direct report for a job within their company. The job would make the direct report Will’s peer.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008

Strategy Driven

That is “good advice in general,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told attendees at the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference , in Washington, D.C By 2008, losses from these portfolios were causing banks to fail. earlier this month. Both fit the archetype of a classic financial panic, Bernanke said.

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Leadership, Employee Engagement and Innovation at BIF-6 Summit

Michael Lee Stallard

Below are brief descriptions of several presentations from the conference. Keith Yamashita inspired conference attendees to be great by seeking optimum solutions that help citizens, companies and the future generations. We reporters like I.F. Alan Webber spoke about the dismal state of our media today.

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

The article is based on an interview I conducted with Goodnight at Giant Impact’s Leadercast conference in Atlanta. The Conference Board released research in January that concluded employee satisfaction and engagement in America were at the lowest point since it began surveying more than 20 years ago.