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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. It speaks to a deeper human need for dignity and acceptance, and the ways we grant dignity to one another. They must move in many circles, think in many styles, and run their businesses as global citizens.

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. Innovations.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai. At the forum we were reminded that the global economy is facing a “talent time bomb.” Therefore we need to see significantly greater investment in the education systems of these parts of the world – and others.

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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.” As such, many companies are trying to grow the talent they need in-house. It was going to be the factory of the future.

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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Human suffering is certainly our main concern in the immediate aftermath of Japan's 3/11 tragedy. But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing — and coping with — the long economic shadow cast by this disaster. The direct impact on real economic activity worldwide is already being felt.

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Reinventing the Chief Marketing Officer: An Interview with Unilever CMO Keith Weed

Harvard Business Review

When Paul arrived at Unilever in 2009, I was running the global laundry and home care business and also the water business around the world. So the role of marketing as I see it is identifying those deeper human needs and providing solutions. How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together. An HBR Insight Center.