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Henry Ford - The Wisdom That Comes from Creating an Industry

Building Personal Strength

It seems to me that if you're the kind of person who can help create an industry - as Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Sam Walton, Malcolm S. This forced him to innovate, and the end result was to revolutionize both transportation and American industry. Copyright 2010. Maybe you have something to say. No, I don't own a Ford.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

With the highest per capita spending across all industries, Washington, D.C. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. A content writing service, for example, plays a valuable support role in product development.

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What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. With 20 cents postage due on the envelope.

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Dilbert Got it Wrong - The Truth about Empowerment

Building Personal Strength

Sunday, December 19, 2010 Dilbert Got it Wrong - The Truth about Empowerment My favorite comic strip is "Dilbert." It means giving people everything they need to do their best work - things like tools, equipment, supplies, technology, transportation, facilities, communication, personnel, information, and time. Copyright 2010.

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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 over this period, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. This needs to change.

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3 Steps to Break Out in a Tired Industry

Harvard Business Review

The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that.