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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

The January 2011 issue of my newsletter featured a selection of hilariously inaccurate predictions about 1993 made in 1893, a few funny failed predictions from the 1400s to 2000s, and a short list of insanely wrong comments (e.g. I’ve published many blogs and articles on the dangers of forecasts and predictions.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet? Here's what those companies do in common: They invest more in their employees.

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