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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Because of this, tourism, one of the country’s biggest income generators, has plummeted leaving it in an economically weakened state. Turbulence. The situation was dire.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. sanctions and a fragile economy.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

In Ma’s case, this dream is not only about establishing a successful and sustainable internet company, but about the type of company that can accomplish this: The company [Alibaba] will remain a ‘start-up’ no matter how long it has been in existence. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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