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Millennials Have Missed Out On The Post-2008 Housing Boom

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the robustness of the housing market is a clear differentiator between the Great Recession of 2008 and the Covid-19 recession. The center point of this support was the First-Time Homebuyer Credit, which provided a tax incentive of approximately $8,000 to new buyers between 2008 and 2010. Strong demand.

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Are managers equipped to solve the UK’s poor productivity?

Chartered Management Institute

Blog: Are managers equipped to solve the UK’s poor productivity? Are managers equipped to solve the UK’s poor productivity? In fact, productivity growth in the years since the 2008 financial crisis has been weaker than at any time since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Between 2008–2021 it increased by 0.9%

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Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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Leading Thoughts for May 4, 2023

Leading Blog

Former NASA engineer-project manager and launch director at SpaceX John Muratore on the importance of purpose: “Tom Holloway, a very famous Program Manager, and head of Flight Directors for a long time, told me something very interesting. He said, ‘People ask us what our greatest resource is, and we always say, ‘our people.’

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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I was recently asked the following question: “What is the difference between CRM and CEM, or is there any difference between the two?&# In a previous post I addressed the practice of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in fairly great detail. As most of you know I am a huge fan of well conceived CRM initiatives.

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It’s Not TV: HBO

Leading Blog

❧ On HBO in the mid-2000s: It just felt like there were a bunch of people who were trying to manage for retirement. ❧ 2008: It was a very comfortable company. They vowed to follow the data wherever it took them. Let’s not rock the boat. Everything in the offices is first class. There’s a gym. There’s a cafeteria.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.