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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. That brings us to the second step: expanding the company’s peripheral vision.

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New York City's Culture Will Shape the Next Tech Sector

Harvard Business Review

But our company makes software that is used across dozens of industry verticals — automotive, health care, hospitality, and the public sector — each with their own specific needs and goals. And what''s even more interesting, between 2007 and 2011, a time when venture capitalism was down 11% nationally, New York saw growth of 32%.

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GM and Ford Highlight Facebook's Challenges, Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. One of Ford's much touted successes on Facebook was its introduction of the 2011 Ford Explorer via its "Reveal" campaign.

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GM and Ford Highlight Facebook's Challenges, Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. One of Ford's much touted successes on Facebook was its introduction of the 2011 Ford Explorer via its "Reveal" campaign.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S.

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