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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Michael Lenox : Humanity faces a number of critical sustainability challenges, global climate change chief among them. Electrical vehicles in transportation. To increase the innovative output of business, especially the output of sustainable technologies, requires pushes and nudges along the edges.

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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed data from across the OECD in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, utilities, services, transportation, and finance sectors, including data on payroll, output, and total employment. In manufacturing, for instance, the ratio fell from 18% in 1981 to 12% in 2011. Uneven spread. Digital leaders.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Specifically, the state is pinning its hopes on small business, with a portion of federal R&D funds “set aside for small business to develop and commercialize innovative technology.&#

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Structural Economic Shift and Unemployment

Coaching Tip

Beginning on January 1, 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will group people by the actual number of weeks of unemployment, up to five years. The structural shift in the global economy makes individual government action irrelevant because stimulating demand won't work long-term. Source: The New Yorker, January 3, 2011.

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3 Ways to Motivate Employees During Times of Change :: Women on.

Women on Business

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009.

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.