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Will The Remote Work Boom See A Rise In Digital Nomadism?

The Horizons Tracker

Such moves are made in large part due to the inherent uncertainty surrounding the digital nomad lifestyle, with many returning to their homeland in the face of the pandemic after advice from their governments. Despite the metropolitan nature of the city, tourism accounts for 15% of GDP and 9% of employment, so the bind is all too evident.

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Why Including Government Procurement In Your Sales & Marketing Strategy Will Catapult Your Business To The Next Level

Strategy Driven

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) — with manufacturing second at 12% of GDP. Some of the best business advice you will receive is that your company MUST designate some resources toward selling to the government. The federal government spends over $4 trillion per year, and state & local agencies spend over $3 trillion.

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Review of “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor

The Practical Leader

And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed. Another excellent book that’s more toward well-being and flourishing and surpasses the personal growth advice in The Happiness Advantage is Barbara Frederickson’s Positivity.

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. ” While this might be a reasonable advice for an indebted individual, it is the wrong advice for countries and a disastrous policy when applied to all countries at once.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. The combination of higher food demand, stunted yield potential, and increasingly worse farmland must stimulate a redesigned agro-sector for assured food security. But most farmers are still only marginally improving yields.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP.

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CEO Next Door Book Reveals Four Key Behaviors Of Successful CEOs And Busts CEO Myths

Eric Jacobson

The CEO Next Door is the new book that offers career advice for everyone who aspires to rise in their organization and achieve their full potential. Impressively, that advice is based on an in-depth analysis of over 2,6,00 leaders -- drawn from a database of more than 17,000 CEOs and C-suite executives. non-farm GDP).

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