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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

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Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment Jane.

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The CEO of Ciena on Surviving an Industry Collapse

Harvard Business Review

Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001. They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained.

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

In the post below, Unnikrishnan shares his experiences searching for an IT consultant position in the Indian and Saudi Arabian job markets. It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art.