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Sudhir Choudhrie’s Tale of Gratitude, Inspiration, and Changing Lives

Strategy Driven

Choudhrie’s entrepreneurial spirit also led him to invest heavily in Air Deccan, which eventually became India’s major budget airline within five years. The Life-Saving Transplant While Sudhir Choudhrie achieved remarkable success in his career, his health battles persisted. Theresa May MP of the U.K.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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That’s what happened, remember, in the airline industry. It was a crash deregulation in the late ‘70s, and you had this crazy … All the airlines, suddenly everybody became a national airline. You had this huge boom and then this terrible bust and all these airlines that had been around for decades disappeared.

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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

One 2013 study illustrates this well. We found that the companies most famous for their cultures — from Southwest Airlines to Trader Joe’s — maximize the good motives , while minimizing the bad ones. Take for example the airline industry. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Reuters reporter Axel Threlfall says he finds it hard to believe the bankers when they say they were attracted to the industry as much by career opportunities and the prospect of interesting work as the salaries. I guess it’s all in how you define “interesting work.” — Andrea Ovans.

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Four Reasons to Believe in a Second American Century

Harvard Business Review

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. Instead, we make jet turbines, helicopters, sophisticated airliners and business jets, electric generators, radar, chemicals and plastics, satellites, and all kinds of weapons. How’d that work out?) Now it’s China’s turn to pull ahead.