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The Discrimination Felt By Muslim Women In Germany

The Horizons Tracker

Data from the FBI shows that Islamaphobia has risen considerably since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Similarly, data from Europe charts a similar spike in the wake of the refugee crisis in 2015.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. In the 2015 Letter he talks about the benefits of high-velocity decisions. Bezos 2015 Letter) To be clear, Amazon has an “intolerance for incompetence.” My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” Understand Your Flywheel (Principle 6).

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How A Simple Intervention Can Reduce Anti-Muslim Sentiment

The Horizons Tracker

Since the 9/11 attacks in 2001, anti-Muslim sentiment has been growing across the United States and Europe, with collective blame to all Muslims metered out in response to terrorist attacks perpetrated by religious extremists in a way that doesn’t happen for white Christians.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2015: The Galleria, 45th. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. The Astrodome, 50th.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6