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Self-Promotion for Professionals from Countries Where Bragging Is Bad

Harvard Business Review

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. In our travels as professors and speakers, we’ve often heard the same refrain. “I Career planning Global business Personal effectiveness' In India, it’s crabs in a bucket — the one who tries to escape is pulled down by his compatriots. In the U.S.,

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Four Major Changes in Global Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Global Prosperity is Rising. Despite the tumultuous events of the last five years, global prosperity is actually still on the rise. Economy Global business Sustainability'

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. I am okay with this view, though the imagery was still very scary.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.