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The Business Travel Diva's Rules for Family Vacations

Next Level Blog

Summer, when the road warrior, business travel divas deign to disrupt their routine to fly with their families on vacation. However, in the interest of full disclosure, I no longer use them since my wife threatened me with bodily harm if I don’t get over myself and lighten the hell up when we all travel together.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

Either way, these mergers that span connected markets change the pattern of competition, because the firms that compete with each other now operate under one roof: CVS won’t need to bargain over the surplus with Aetna, or Express Scripts with Cigna. But the groups usually continue to compete externally with the other groups.

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Leading Across Borders? Don't Change a Thing

Harvard Business Review

Years later, he bought a financially ailing airline and transformed it into Asia's most profitable and fastest-growing low-cost operator. The airline's tagline "Now Everyone Can Fly" says it all; anyone who joins the company knows they will play a role in providing affordable travel to as many people as possible.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Why Monitoring Your Employees’ Behavior Can Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Right before the start of our study in 2011, new closed-circuit television cameras were installed at all airport checkpoints—covering almost all the various positions the officers rotated through, from checking travelers’ documents to operating body-scan machines.

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Which Is Worse: Airline Monopolies or Airline Competition?

Harvard Business Review

Near the beginning of the complaint that the Justice Department, five states, and the District of Columbia filed this week in an attempt to halt the merger of US Airways and American Airlines is a sentence that cannot help but make a person stop and think. Then again, airline safety has remained the subject of government regulation.