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Using Virtual Tools To Rebuild “Ghost Neighborhoods”

The Horizons Tracker

” Going back in time The researchers used data from the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, which are hand-constructed maps of all American cities that were created for fire insurance purposes. They believe that the destruction of communities by interstate highway construction is a national problem that is slowly being recognized.

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Alaska, Bad Weather and Building an Oil Pipeline

Great Results Team Building

After the 1973 American oil crisis, and a few legal battles with environmentalists, oil companies started planning the pipeline’s construction. About 6,000 of the workers during the pipeline’s construction were Alaskan natives. Bill Parcells is famous for sharing a similar message with his football teams.

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How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

However, you must visualize disappointment as a constructive experience for future growth. It is important to note that business relationships are part and parcel of what makes your business successful. If your first plan of action doesn’t succeed, aim to find an alternate route to give your business the best chance of taking off.

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37 Years Later - The Brooklyn Bridge

Building Personal Strength

The City's fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year. I thought about the workers who died during its construction. Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars, Beading thy path--condense eternity: And we have seen night lifted in thine arms. I listened to the traffic.

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Why You Should Question Your Culture

Harvard Business Review

By making these differences concrete and conscious, they were able to have a constructive dialogue that led to ground rules for decision-making. To what extent do we share information broadly or parcel it out narrowly? For example: To what extent do we reward individual vs. team results?

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

” Many organizations construct short-term projects by simply carving off the first few months of a multi-year implementation plan, and then the next few, and so on. The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. For those who decide to build in flood risk areas, construction teams will be able to use modular materials that can be disassembled like Lego pieces. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas.