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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS.

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How I Discovered The Values That Led Me To Leadership Success

Terry Starbucker

We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. They had no idea who I was, or why I was there (by then I had changed my travel wardrobe from jackets and collars to polo shirts and casual slacks, so I didn’t stick out in these places like a sore thumb).

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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

We had acquired the properties in 2003, and had spent the first 5 years setting the stage for a drive to sustained growth and profitability. Our marketing department had created a robot-looking character called Maxwell to push their sales campaign, and I affectionately began to call him Maxwell Roboto. Roboto”.

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Rising Above the Stage Show

Chris Brady

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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What the Mission to Mars Shows About India’s Innovators

Harvard Business Review

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

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The Future of Business Is Social: Seven Principles That Lead to.

Strategy Driven

A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development. And it does not stop there.

Media 67
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Yelp is Leaving Chains Behind

Harvard Business Review

With a quick look at a smartphone, a traveler can easily find a great local store or restaurant option nearby. Review sites allow consumers to tap into a vast pool of formerly private knowledge, and that knowledge is beginning to undermine the traditional advantages of mass-market branding and advertising.

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