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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

A recent paper from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) taps into the zeitgeist by proclaiming that startups will be vital to successfully tackle global challenges, such as Covid-19 and Brexit. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

3 As leaders emerge from 2020 and begin to redesign their business plans, Gen X and millennial leaders are reworking their understanding, capabilities and skills to meet “the new normal.” Jossey-Bass; 2011:17. 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S. Tuning in, turning outward: Cultivating compassionate leadership in a crisis. 3 Goleman D.

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Protect Your Supply Chain During a Pandemic by Using Automation

Strategy Driven

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. These were followed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the U.S. THE TRUTH REVEALED.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

But a 2011 Congressional Research Service report suggests that a loss of confidence in the debt market could provoke foreign creditors to divest large portions of their holdings, thus inciting others to do so, and causing a run on the dollar in international markets. trillion, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0 trillion to $6.2

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A Futurist Looks at the Future of Marketing

Harvard Business Review

By 2020, most interruptive marketing will be gone. By 2020, unauthorized targeting of consumers will essentially be useless. About Gerd Leonhard: Gerd Leonhard is considered a thought-leader and global influencer in media/content, technology, marketing & communications, telecom, and culture, consulting many leading global companies.

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Africa's Growth Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates.