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International Travel as Education, Adventure and Service

Chris Brady

My first airline flight didn't occur until age 19 when I went to pick up a car in Oklahoma. I had been bitten by the travel bug. I soon thereafter began traveling for for my job, and went out west to visit friends when I got time off work. Mostly, however, I stayed close to home in the good old Flint area.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career? Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.

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Caption Contest 2011.1 and a Winner Announced!

Chris Brady

Posted by: Doug Hines | January 05, 2011 at 09:53 AM The airline's learned that charging for blankets and pillows were not popular with the traveller. Keep warm and work in comfort and privacy while avoiding the nasty germs from the other travellers around you! You can take it anywhere! mean VICTORY.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Design stems from USE. Align with similar initiatives.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

A passenger jet belonging to a cut-rate airline had recently crashed into the Florida Everglades, and Kinsley argued in Slate that it was appropriate for discount airlines to be more dangerous than the major carriers. The chance of getting killed in a crash on a given flight on a major airline is roughly 1 in 10 million.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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