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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

It speaks to a deeper human need for dignity and acceptance, and the ways we grant dignity to one another. As an example of how to save face, I often share the story of Jeff, the finance director of a multinational company. Face represents one’s self esteem, self-worth, identity, reputation, status, pride, and dignity.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. Nigeria, in particular (with a population projected to exceed that of the USA by 2050 ), will increase its workforce threefold in the next 50 years. Our future progress depends on it.

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

Harvard Business Review

So the role of marketing as I see it is identifying those deeper human needs and providing solutions. A CSR project is not going to balance out some of the negative impact of your business. How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together. Why Marketing Needs to Hire a Corporate Folklorist. An HBR Insight Center.