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Unexpected Issues with Business Trips

Strategy Driven

Sometimes, issues with business trips are completely out of our control, but knowing how to react and respond to them will go a long way to minimizing their impact on you and your career. Business trips by car are a great opportunity to discuss your strategies with your team and bond closer. World-Changing Events. Car Accidents.

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Win Back Trust with Raw, Unscripted, and Real Messaging

Skip Prichard

Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers. Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership.

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Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard's "Priceless" Pitchman

Harvard Business Review

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. The South African Airways pitch was won on the basis of a shared ambition of presenting the airline as a symbol for what the entire nation could become.