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The Use Of Ride Sharing During Emergencies

The Horizons Tracker

“Our study offers important insights into the design of platform strategies, especially for stimulating labor supply and providing incentives for urban transportation systems to adopt and use technology in response to urban emergencies,” the researchers explain. In contrast, daily use of ride-sharing platforms remained relatively stable.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Seers, prophets, and fortune-tellers of all sorts have responded to — and preyed upon — the primal desire we have to reduce the uncertainty of what lies ahead. It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015. These transformations are vital to continuous change and development in our unpredictable and fast-changing world.

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Strategic Resolutions for 2016

Strategy Driven

At some point, senior leaders developed the misguided notion that they have to pay to terminate employees. If research and development or technology drive your organization, you’ll be at risk for this phenomenon than other kinds of organizations. Uncertainty scares most people, but successful leaders aren’t most people.

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Beware ‘Reply All’

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately, while email was designed to be a productivity enhancer, it has developed into something that is quite the opposite. Since leaving, Dessau has held senior executive and CMO roles at both private and Fortune 500 companies including StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, AMD, and Stratus Technologies. Consider leaving a comment!

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Managers in the Digital Age Need to Stay Human

Harvard Business Review

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. Leaders should personally invest more effort in talent development during periods of high change. Or are they? Invest in your people. Focus on a higher purpose.