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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, restaurants and hotels often have difficulty predicting demand for their services, because many factors influence whether, when, and where people eat out or travel. If you’re in the upper-left quadrant, you are with industries that face high demand uncertainty but low technological uncertainty.

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow.