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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or COVID-19—who were sent home or allowed to travel because busy staff people were following a protocol to the letter rather than using common sense? Why and how do these kinds of things happen?

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The Book That Will Change Your Travel Life

CO2

An interview with Nicholas Kralev, author of Decoding Air Travel: A Guide to Saving on Airfare and Flying in Luxury. About the Author: Nicholas Kralev is a writer, educator, and speaker on global travel, diplomacy, and international affairs. Describe what it means to Decode Air Travel? The last time I flew in coach was 2002.

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Support For Migration Grows Among The Young

The Horizons Tracker

The research drew upon a public opinion dataset that was compiled between 2002 and 2017 to allow for the attitude towards immigration of a few generations of British people to be tracked. The company, which was founded in 1965 and offers a range of cultural exchange and educational travel programs that aim to open the world through education.

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6 Q Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Zenger and Folkman (2002) report that the top 10% of leaders produce five times as much net profit as the bottom 10 %, and twice as much as average leaders. TQ – Technical/Operational Quotient Top leaders know the business. They have the operational skills to make things happen. They travel a lot. Again, the news is good.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. I find this especially true when coaches work with executives in operations. That workshop in coaching skills is a long way from the world of the factory floor.

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When Roads Are Closed for Marathons, More Elderly People Die of Heart Attacks

Harvard Business Review

cities that held marathons from 2002 to 2012. While this may seem small in absolute terms, it reflects a nearly 30% increase in travel time (the average travel time in our data was about 12 minutes). While our analysis of travel times focused on ambulances, 23% of the patients in our study arrived at the hospital by other means.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development.

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