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Siena by Car - "You Idiot"

Chris Brady

As my five and six year old can only handle so manysteps taken in the name of tourism, and since their appreciation for Gothicarchitecture and the history of Tuscany’s artists hasn’t quite reached fullmaturity, conserving their travel distance is a great strategy for extendingthe potential time for touring. Things wereworking out swimmingly.

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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

We compare trends across 10 distinct types of flows within its 4 pillars: trade (merchandise and services), capital (FDI and portfolio equity), information (internet bandwidth, telephone calls, trade in printed publications), and people (tourism, international education, migration). • Why does all of this matter?

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. By April 2014, Nike was waving the white flag by laying off most of the FuelBand’s development team. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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