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Do Emojis Reinforce Cultural Stereotypes About Race?

The Horizons Tracker

“For a lot of our technologies there is an ideal user imagined, and these skin-tone modifiers created a moment of rupture for those users—in this case, white people—who suddenly were made aware of race in an interface that had previously seemed raceless to them.” ” Supporting communication.

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Decision Makers vs. Influencers

Strategy Driven

decision makers for each sale, and ‘unknown’ influencers. Yet there is no difference between ‘decision makers’ and ‘influencers’. If you want to move and your daughter is in her last year of high school and prefers to stay behind to finish the year, is she a decision maker or an influencer? I’ve heard there are 5.7

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

neither sales nor marketing go behind-the-scenes, into the environment/culture in which the buyer lives, to help facilitate the non-solution-focused internal political or relational issues buyers must address to get the necessary buy-in and make the necessary adjustments to their culture that change demands. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

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. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years—and the presidency from Reagan to George W.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

°F) — a level that seemed politically feasible, but still leads to vast damage, including the death of all coral; even more deadly storms and heat; and rising oceans covering low-lying island nations and major coastal areas. So, to go even further, companies need to also consider who they support for political office.

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If You Want to Change the World, Partner with China

Harvard Business Review

It’s using this development to rapidly experiment with new technologies, policies, and financial systems. In fact, China is innovating at a city level , designating tens of cities at a time as pilots for every viable clean technology. The Politics of China’s Economic Adjustment. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands.

Energy 8
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Product Success Is Not About the Zeitgeist

Harvard Business Review

The Hunger Games combined science fiction and adventure (conventional boy stuff) with a strong sense of romance (conventional girl stuff), and it addressed our anxieties about technology and surveillance. You could point to something about technology — the national enthusiasm about it or the ambivalence. People needed a lift.