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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Heinz and others.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Aspiring to a global career.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. In the long term the goal must be broader: to create an economy built around innovation, one that embraces uncertainty.

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Does Your Company Have What It Takes to Go Global?

Harvard Business Review

To identify the internal factors that distinguish successful and unsuccessful ventures, we divided respondents into two groups: winners, whose expansion efforts met business performance objectives such as sales, profit, and market share goals, and losers, whose efforts failed to achieve goals. Publicly reinforcing stated goals.

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Playing the Ultimatum Game with Merkozy

Harvard Business Review

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors. They were the doing of a bunch of technocrats, led by French economist and diplomat Jean Monnet.