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French Pension Reforms: Controversy and No-Confidence Vote Survived by Macron

HR Digest

As France grapples with an aging population and a pension system deficit, the government’s proposal to raise the retirement age and cut pension costs has sparked a wave of protests and strikes across the country. Join the debate and share your thoughts on the France Retirement Age Protest and 2023 French Pension Reform Strike.

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Propose a novel idea to your colleagues or the team members you lead. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. Northern Command. ” -Sun Tzu.

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High Frequency Trading and Finance’s Race to Irrelevance

Harvard Business Review

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. Well, it’s becoming increasingly hard to resist that pressure. Economy Finance' The final destination?

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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. GDP grew by 1.9%

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. All they read is commercial offers, proposals, etc. They haven't read a book in years.

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Her peers complained bitterly about her "my way or the highway" approach and often felt blindsided when they heard her present a proposed plan of action to senior management without having solicited their input.

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History Rhymes in the Greek Debt Crisis

Harvard Business Review

On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Following complex negotiations, Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady proposed that debt reduction and/or debt service reduction be combined with increased lending and continuation of growth-oriented economic adjustment. Signs of a new U.S.

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