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Few Countries Manage To Be Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

. “For a country to be self-sufficient, its population needs access to food, water and energy, resources that can often only be provided by the surrounding ecosystem. Yet because human activities tend to cause unintended side effects like global warming or ozone depletion,” the researchers explain.

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How Effective is Your Communication?

Great Leadership By Dan

Communication is a basic human need. Interacting with other humans has been the core of human progress throughout the ages. Isolation and lack of human interaction will emotionally, mentally, and physically debilitate a person; as will ineffective conversations.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” Pick one to three key areas for improvement and develop an action plan for desired change.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Is it possible to develop empathy? As humans, we’re hardwired to emotionally attune with those around us. The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. Letitia, a senior leader at a global insurance company that I worked with, was adamant that her leadership team cultivate the trait of being open.

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Why Even AI-Powered Factories Will Have Jobs for Humans

Harvard Business Review

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. Humans are underrated.” Adding Humans to the Mix. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. Great need doesn’t necessarily equal great demand. When pharmaceutical companies launch a life-saving drug, they regularly spend twice as much on marketing as on the drug development.

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Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works

Harvard Business Review

But how feasible are these plans at large, global organizations?There At the time, Zhengfei had no idea what a stock option system was – not being familiar at that time with the types of incentives systems developed in the West. Huawei’s ESOP can satisfy both human needs.