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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Big trends in business and society tend to march along at a measured pace. When change happens fast in some area, it’s usually because multiple trends are converging to accelerate the process. This is what is going on now in community development. From the non-profit side, the trend is toward measuring outcomes, not process.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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Social Mood and Presidential Leadership

Coaching Tip

The rampant speculation of the time spread beyond the financial class, such that porters and ladies' maids had enough money to buy their own carriages. Who will occupy the Oval Office when the next Grand Supercycle depression develops? This guide will help you survive a major deflationary trend, and even equip you to prosper.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances.

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Your Digital Strategy Shouldn’t Be About Attention

Harvard Business Review

What every institution needs  —  and what every leader needs to develop  —  before a “digital strategy” is a human strategy. You must help them develop into the people they were meant to be. Connection means more than just gawping at your “content” when it’s trending.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. private-sector research and development. For the last 20 years, however, these companies have been expanding most of their activities more rapidly abroad than at home, and this trend accelerated in the 2000s. A Vital Contribution.

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Water's Economics as Muddy as Ever

Harvard Business Review

The trend is clear globally as well. Andy Wales' company, SABMiller, recently invited businesses, NGOs and other organizations to join a global water initiative, the Water Futures Partnership , in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the German development agency (GIZ). It's a desert.