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Competitive Labor Markets Help Extract Community Benefits From Multinationals

The Horizons Tracker

The phrase “banana republic” is commonly used today, but its origins are perhaps less well understood, yet at the time, the behavior of the United Fruit Company was sufficiently infamous to coin the term we know and love today. What’s more, this impact persisted even after the company went bankrupt in 1984.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. So, with the help of WordPress analytics and content judgment, here’s my list of the top ’CEO Afterlife’ blogs of 2011. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. ” Self-assessment is never easy.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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Brand Surgery ? excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article | In.

In the CEO Afterlife

Brand Surgery – excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. The blemish is the abdication of strategic attention by the organization’s most senior marketing executives to the enhancement of brand equity.

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Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won't Admit It | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won’t Admit It. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. Articulating how a company will become the biggest and the best is the strategy. 2 Responses to Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won’t Admit It. Leadership.

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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

In the most recent turn of events, Blackstone Group withdrew its bid for the company after making the determination that Dell’s future and the PC industry looks bleak. Throughout all this I cannot help but ask what seems to be a fundamental underlying question about this company, and that is, who should lead Dell going forward?

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