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The Best Leadership Books of 2017

Leading Blog

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. Grants example is instructive for us today. New skills will be needed.

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The Use Of Ride Sharing During Emergencies

The Horizons Tracker

“Our study offers important insights into the design of platform strategies, especially for stimulating labor supply and providing incentives for urban transportation systems to adopt and use technology in response to urban emergencies,” the researchers explain. In contrast, daily use of ride-sharing platforms remained relatively stable.

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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

With fall officially here, children are now fully settled in at school, businesses are back up to full speed after summer vacations, and many of us are taking stock of our 2017 resolutions – and how to accomplish them before the holidays approach. Espouse the importance of continued learning, and lead through example.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

Far from being a destroyer of jobs therefore, what technology does seem to do is help inequality between those with skills and those without. A good example of this comes from a recently published study from the University of California, Los Angeles, which explores how technology (in the broadest sense) has affected wages over the years.

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Technology Investments That’ll Improve Your Business’s Organization

Strategy Driven

In today’s modern environment, a business needs to be making use of the full range of technology available to them in every aspect of their enterprise. Technology has made it easier than ever before to keep in contact with suppliers, listen to customers and what they have to say, and increase your presence through the internet.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. It’s amazing when you think that VISA’s stated capacity as of August 2017 was 65,000 payments per second globally. Singles Day is a technological marvel.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

O VER THE PAST FEW DECADES, we’ve seen several examples of “brand renegades.” For example, Bicycle, the world’s leading manufacturer of playing cards, produced Club Tattoo decks of cards with tattoo designs that were picked up by Walmart, Target, Walgreens, and other large retailers. Invest in strategic partnerships.

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