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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. 1: Open adjacent product areas: For the people across the 147 countries around the world who learned about colors and the alphabet from Sesame Street, there's one more lesson that the beloved TV program can offer.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Employees are more proactive, more present, and more productive with the application of their discretionary energy. ? which translated into $250K for each hotel!

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How to Turn Traveling the World into a Career

Strategy Driven

Before spending a lot of money on tickets and hotels, check with yourself that you won’t regret it once you’re halfway across the world. Backpackers and hikers are sought after by companies that sell travel products because they make great spokespeople for reviewing the equipment. Hotels also require a vast range of staff.

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Are You Certified?: The Benefits Of Certification In Business

Strategy Driven

Many people become certified in a certain subject so that they can pursue a career in a specific industry. It can often become a fun challenge for hotels to earn that extra star rating, for an investment firm to achieve GIPS compliance or for a farm to achieve organic certification. Pride in a company can lead to greater productivity.

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Highest Paying Foreign Language Jobs around the Globe

HR Digest

Hotel Manager. A hotel manager fits such a position. The career scope of multilingual people in this field is extensive. They can also help people and an audience learn a foreign language, sell products or services, and also make money through advertisements. Linguistic Tour Guide. International Correspondence.

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April 2019 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team building, and more. It’s a challenge most leaders face at some point in their career. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Instill Confidence in Employees.

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We Should Avoid The “Turing Trap” With AI And Continue Making Humans Indispensable

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, if we can shift our mindset in such a way, it could unlock a wave of innovation and productivity improvements that benefit us all. Expanding the vision For much of the development of AI, the vision has been to replicate human intelligence. While this is an enticing vision, it’s also a limiting one.