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How to Be a Real Leader And Great Manager

Lead from Within

People look to managers not just to assign them a task but also to define a purpose for them—something that’s usually a role of leadership. And managers organize workers not just to maximize efficiency but to nurture skills, develop talent and inspire results, again showing overlap with leadership. Managers tend to avoid risk.

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Public Service Announcements

Strategy Driven

The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II. Through all that, I became enamored with community service, developing trust relationships with stakeholders. Others cut into programs and services in order to fund marketing. Create plausible narratives.

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Mentoring and Lifelong Learning

Strategy Driven

The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization. It’s not when you learn.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets. Catastrophe bonds are high-yield bonds, sponsored by local governments and issued by reinsurance companies, that do not pay out in the event of a catastrophe.

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The Big Picture of Business – Community Relations and Cause Related Marketing Are Business Strategies, Not Sales Promotions: Determining the Right Kind of Tie-In Causes.

Strategy Driven

Business development. I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing. He was simply rationalizing a corporate marketing initiative. Do not run your “foundation” out of a corporate marketing department.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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The Facebook Investor You Never Want to Become

Harvard Business Review

Rather than compare the benefits of a wide set of possible investments — like other individual stocks, or bonds, or index and other exchange traded funds — people selected among the much smaller set of highly familiar investment choices. Creating and marketing a tablet is quite expensive. But was that so?

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