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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

One of the biggest success stories to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis is the incredibly quick development of life-saving vaccines. An especially exciting medical breakthrough is the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology now used in Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. ” This is classic servant leadership.

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Broken Immigration Is Breaking The European Job Market

The Horizons Tracker

To quote Eurochambres President Leitl, “We are sleep-walking into a highly damaging socio-economic crisis.”. So, every day that we turn back a skilled migrant due to slow immigration processes or ridiculous bureaucracy, we are costing our community five jobs. trillion dollars by 2030. This is crushing our businesses, particularly SMEs.

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Our Dell Dance to the ‘Bureaucratic Boogie’ Highlights a Common Service Breakdown

The Practical Leader

We like their technology, customizing equipment to our needs, value, and next day onsite service. I just got off the phone from a painful hour of experiencing Dell’s inward focused bureaucracy as Gary, our IT support guy, and I purchased a notebook computer for Heather. That may change.

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How Rio de Janeiro Uses Tech to Solve Urban Challenges

Harvard Business Review

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

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Launching Effective Start-ups in Governments

Harvard Business Review

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. All government start-ups need not be new bureaucracies, rich with hierarchies and overhead costs. From Vague Goals to Concrete Deliverables.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. The entrepreneurial society.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses. As the U.S.

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