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Encouraging Cross-Border Trade And Cooperation

The Horizons Tracker

The area has seen precious little economic cooperation, despite policymakers on both sides of the border promoting it, and numerous initiatives existing to support cooperation. For instance, patents filed as a result of cross-border cooperation are rare.”

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Leadership in a Nutshell - And "The Secret" of Successful Managers

Building Personal Strength

They don't get down and dirty and tell managers what they have to do. Which makes books like this almost useless to a manager on the front lines who finds himself in charge of a group of people. Develop your people. And nearly all of them are academic or philosophical treatments. So how are you supposed to do that? Four things.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. Gordon Berridge: Did you have a mentor at Rio Tinto, if so, how important was that person to you and your development?

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The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security

Harvard Business Review

Recent allegations of the theft of top-security information connected to the development of sophisticated weapons and air defense systems have only heightened concerns about the security of the nation''s networks. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Learning Swarm Intelligence from Tiki-Taka Soccer .

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. But I meant it. Why accounting? During my time as CEO of TNT N.V.