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It Takes a Team

The Recovering Engineer

We have the Kevin Eikenberry Group team that supports us as we travel for training and speaking engagements. We have our families who have tolerated the long-hours of travel, phone calls, blog posts, article writing, meetings, and website development it takes to get a book written, published, and sold. And the list goes on and on.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Years ago my husband and I were fortunate enough to travel to China with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn who was being permitted to bring his Buddhist teachings to the people in Beijing and various outer monasteries. Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

The DOJ opposed the 2011 merger that AT&T and T-Mobile wanted because it feared that the merger would threaten the role of T-Mobile as a disruptive “ un-carrier ” in the telecom industry. In this model, firms cooperate with each other in groups to compete against other firms or other groups.

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Immigration Is at the Heart of U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

In 1970, the year I was born, Guyana’s dictator declared the country a cooperative republic and deepened relations with Cuba, North Korea, and the Soviet Union. Similarly, in 2011, HP was declining at a precipitous rate. after traveling abroad. Consider the country where I grew up. Imports were banned, including flour.

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What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN

Harvard Business Review

She has learned to perform amid chaos through past postings: the former Soviet republic of Georgia during the 2008 Russian invasion, Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and Indonesia at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. I take time off, get together with friends, stop traveling on missions for a bit.”

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Did you just book a flight on Expedia or enter travel plans on your Calendar? According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined. Find a particularly helpful answer on Quora? You'll have a recommender suggest who on Outlook/Gmail/Linked-In and/or Facebook should be forward an excerpt.

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Which Is Worse: Airline Monopolies or Airline Competition?

Harvard Business Review

to just three, which, the complaint argues, would "make it easier for the remaining airlines to cooperate, rather than compete, on price and service.". From 1979 to 2011, though, Henwood calculates that U.S. billion (in 2011 dollars). It would reduce the number of major "legacy" carriers in the U.S. That last bit is surely true.