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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival.

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. I used to think a valuation was kind of like the stock price of a public company. Like Markus Persson, who created Minecraft, who was just trying to build an idea that he could sell for $6.99 I was wrong.

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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

This is an important point, as these market dynamics appear to be more important than automation and technological investment, which have widely been blamed for the erosion of workers pay and status in the workplace. “That’s our key point.” ” Superstar firms.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Technology also gives the oil and gas industry a chance to wash its face. The Green Revolution. The Bleeding Edge.

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Managers: What’s Your Plan B?

Lead Change Blog

And at the 880-seat Tabor Opera House, patrons enjoyed John Philip Sousa, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera stars, Harry Houdini, and Oscar Wilde. In the same decade that Swiss watchmakers were reeling from the game-changing introduction of quartz technology, Leadville suffered a similarly profound paradigm shift.

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Why is it so darn easy to say NO?

Women on Business

Being helpful comes with a price, and the price is more work. Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Oftentimes, there is more risk in customer service when the answer to our concerns is “yes.” Can you help me? Could you look into this issue I’m having?

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101 Greatest Quotes About Success and How to Achieve It

Lead from Within

– -Oscar Wilde. There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey. –John Ruskin. During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. – -John D.