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7 Key Steps for a Successful Career Change

Strategy Driven

Take an inventory of your skills, interests, and goals. For instance, a programmer that switches to marketing in the tourism and leisure industry is only changing their occupation, but if a retail worker employed in the makeup industry becomes a project manager for a tourism and leisure industry, they’ve changed their career.

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Ready to Grow Your Business? How to Appeal to Niche Audiences

Strategy Driven

The most obvious sector to benefit is the tourism industry, but other sectors can thrive by appealing to non-English speakers – we all have the same needs and requirements. Recognizing when it’s the right time to grow your business is key to its success. Your timing is critical. You just finished reading Ready to Grow Your Business?

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Those who benefit from collaborations, rather than become the victim of them, will log the biggest successes in business years ahead. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Procurement and purchasing capacities.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. Because of this, tourism, one of the country’s biggest income generators, has plummeted leaving it in an economically weakened state. Success one year, or even one week, doesn’t at all guarantee future wins. The situation was dire. So did we succeed? Look at Volkswagen in 2015.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

.” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals? We believe the answer is yes. In fact, this sort of thinking is something of a return to the norm.

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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article, The Guardian newspaper called for the National Health Service to turn to universities as a key resource, arguing that the research ecosystem in the UK is fragmented and more partnerships that align expertise with the goal of improving public health are needed. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business Review

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. Deploying them now is critical to ensure success with data-driven change initiatives in the future. However, when it comes to change, few track performance from project to project beyond knowing which ones met their goals.