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Review of From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The Practical Leader

Arthur is currently an American social scientist and Harvard professor, writer of “How to Build a Life” column in The Atlantic, and podcast host of “The Art of Happiness.” For many professions, performance peaks in the mid-forties and early fifties.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

operations training director, West Operations package Operations Manager, President of the Mid South District, President of the Atlantic District, and President of the West Region. Those roles included; corporate marketing, on the Global B2C Strategy Team, Corporate Learning and Talent Development as the U.S.

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Guiding Others to Make Good Decisions

Your Voice of Encouragement

She quickly shifted her attention to schools in the mid-Atlantic area. And then we decided on rule #1: The school had to be located close enough that she wouldn't need to get on a plane to come home on breaks. Or at least we weren't going to pay for air travel as part of the deal. She thought living in the city would be cool.

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The Big Barrier to High-Value Health Care: Destructive Self-Interest

Harvard Business Review

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. This continuing transfer from wages to health care does not reflect better value for money.

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Study: Customers Really Do Trust Family Businesses More

Harvard Business Review

“They advised us to retain that as a strong part of who we are,” said Paul Choquette, a fifth-generation Gilbane who runs the Mid-Atlantic operation. “There’s a feel to a family business that clients in our space like. ” High-rise buildings and schools are among Gilbane’s typical projects.

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Apple's Greatness, and Its Shame

Harvard Business Review

Some reasonable estimates from The Atlantic place the cost of materials (of a mid-level 32GB $600 iPad) at about $325. These labor challenges are complicated, but any argument that it would be too expensive to pay people better and give them much better working conditions is absurd. Labor is a whopping $10.

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Do You Really Want to Bet Against China?

Harvard Business Review

A core prediction of Rohwer’s 1995 book was that by 2020 the center of global economic gravity would have shifted from the mid-Atlantic to somewhere in or near Asia — with Asia’s economy bigger than those of Europe and the Americas combined.