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2020 Analysis: Which Financial Services Sector Saw the Greatest Upsurge in Demand Due to COVID-19

Strategy Driven

A study by Awaken Intelligence investigated how the financial sectors in the US and UK have been coming during the crisis. As a result of the nature of the COVID-19 enforced changes, even the most traditional businesses had to embrace modern technology and recognise its value. Real Estate.

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Why it Pays to be a Contrarian

Strategy Driven

When I began to buy and sell commercial real estate in 1968 I was told that the market had been weak for years, and I was foolish to even consider that kind of investment. Take for example the financial crisis of 2008. In his famous poem, Robert Frost declared that he preferred to take “the road less travelled by.”

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Services You Need To Protect Your Commercial Property

Strategy Driven

Armed with a flurry of positive customer testimonials, many of these comments specific how quickly this firm perform their services in times of crisis. They also use the newest advancement technology systems to clean, disinfect, and dry all your property, eliminating moisture across the board.

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Business Publications Small Business Review | Newsletter for Small Business Owners Small Business Review’s e-letter is published bi-weekly and provides small businesses with information on the necessary evils of running their businesses. ** N2′s Top Pick for being of real value to small businesses. Inc.com Inc.

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Your Most Pressing Management Problem Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Managers' survival, he continued, in a conclusion that could have been written this morning, depends "on their foresight and their grasp not only of immediate trends and problems in particular organizations but of external technological, social, and political forces of revolutionary proportions.". What Makes a Leader? What Is Strategy?

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Science fiction can help.

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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business Review

The family-owned business runs Puerto Rico’s largest media company&#8212 (GFR Media) as well as other companies focused on customer engagement (LinkActive) and real estate (Kingbird). Crisis brings opportunities to explore uncharted territories. These opportunities sprouted from the crisis. and Caribbean.

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