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Venturing into an article about travel is as much a departure for me as my recent trip to Mexico. I write about high-performing groups and teams. My wife and I reacquainted with our favorite resort – Esperanza in Cabo San Lucas, part of the Auberge Resorts Collection.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. I didn’t want to turn down such an honor over the phone, so I travelled from Paris to Tunis to meet Prime Minister Jomaa. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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How Senior Executives Stay Passionate About Their Work

Harvard Business Review

He has the perspective to see Rosetta Stone’s reach in these areas because he travels the world meeting customers and spending time with educational institutions and the students and teachers in them. They’re much less likely to get blindsided by the changes around them. Leadership as service.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. Yet I didn’t want to turn down such an honor over the phone, so I traveled from Paris to Tunis to meet Prime Minister Jomaa. How could I refuse? My family was against it and it was risky.

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

In fact, each of these innovations is already up and running somewhere in the world today, with more happening every day. The project used Internet of Things data from public transport nodes, traffic lights, and intersections to shorten travel time, ease congestion, and make the streets safer for pedestrians. Five years?