Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. 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. Turbulence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight. With the business, social, and political landscapes shifting like quicksand, “failing forward fast” is more important now than ever.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Geography can also factor in startup success and failure rates. Craig Casselberry is the founder and president of Austin-based Quorum Public Affairs, Inc.,

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

There is a level of sincerity and empathy that underlies these expressions of gratitude—even when there may be little understanding of the soldier’s true reasons for joining the military, disagreement with political or national policy, or a lack of agreement as to the reasons for military action in the first place.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. Juvan got some political flack from fellow lawyers, but she didn’t back off. When Juvan started using social media a decade ago, very few lawyers used such tools. Good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

In many industries, especially in technology, you may feel “old” at 35 — even though you might continue to work full-time until you hit 75. In early 2013 I returned to the workforce in my mid-fifties as a senior exec with tech startup Airbnb. They fear becoming increasingly invisible, or even being cast aside.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. kevin phillips/Getty Images. As a group, the largest U.S. Some tier-one suppliers to major manufacturers are performing well, but tier-two and -three suppliers in many industries are struggling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Competing nations have also been expanding their space exploration efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Let’s borrow some language from political philosophy and think in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. Firms often use an innovative technology or a new business model to seize the new opportunity and they typically disrupt someone else’s business in the process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. The most recent report from the FCC finds that at the end of 2013, 95% of all U.S. At least for voice services, the U.S. of all U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Throughout the world, it has become a proxy for success and for failure. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. It is a profoundly important indicator. This past Friday, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Both challenges were fundamentally political with a small “p.” This was a $1.2

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

One of the key faults found in all these discussions on the differences between Millennials and the other generational cohorts is that they often differentiate generational values with respect to technological differences – in particular, differences in usage – as opposed to sociological ones. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P.,

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

Everywhere it has emerged, a modern middle class causes political ferment, but only rarely has it been able, on its own, to bring about lasting political change. They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations. Related articles.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. But for several decades it’s been clear that the gains of modernization for some have produced substantial losses for others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Pizza Hut''s campaign unwittingly shut the door on thousands of customers who were either: 1) people within the target market that the ad alienated (ex: millennials who care about politics more than pizza); or 2) people excluded from the target market altogether (ex: non-Gen Yers). These women are literally not buying the message.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S. PepsiCo has had great success with the method , finding ways to reduce cost and risk for key brands, but execs wanted to apply the tool across thousands of products. Five Questions For 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. The successful ones have, at least. When the public and politicians see businesses as agents or enemies of social policy, businesses cannot avoid becoming political.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. The same phenomenon affects decisions about covering news stories or political rallies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The American Customer Satisfaction Index gives Internet service providers (the cable industry) a score of 65 for 2013 — the worst of any industry tracked — with hoping-to-merge giants Time Warner Cable and Comcast at even more dismal scores of 63 and 62, respectively. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. Communications.

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