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Weekly Round-Up: On Team Building, Gratitude and Leadership

leaderCommunicator

6 Conversations Every Leader Needs To Have By Randy Conley, Leading with Trust Between email, text message, instant messaging, and social media, it’s never been easier to communicate with each other, yet the quality of our interactions seems to have become….

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Crisis Leadership: 5 Things NOT To Do

Ron Edmondson

I first wrote a post like this in 2010 following a huge flood that devastated our county. Now in 2020, I find myself pastoring again – in a different church – in the midst of another crisis. As a pastor of a large church, we were called upon to help our community in recovery efforts.

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

Collecting proper records of returns helps to reduce defects and deliver a better quality product to your clients. The annual demand for tactile robots is doubling, and by 2020, the market for robots will be nearly 10 times what it was in 2010. Monitor The Performance Of Vendors. Automate Everything.

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Don't Underestimate China's Luxury Market

Harvard Business Review

The Wall Street Journal says that Prada's dazzling numbers reflect Chinese consumers' increasingly refined tastes, making Prada's high quality leather goods, with high price points and subtle logos, that much more attractive. trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion to $6.2 trillion, an increase of 203 percent.

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. We see billions of people around the world striving to improve their quality of life, and ideas about what constitutes an improved quality of life shifting. And of course, more pressure on climate.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. And we get feedback from our customers that quality and aesthetics still matter more than smart features. appeared in an IBM investor briefing.