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The Growing Popularity Of “Zoom Towns”

The Horizons Tracker

“This trend was already happening, but amenity migration into these communities has been expedited and it can have destructive consequences if not planned for and managed. How does a gateway community navigate tourism, and growth writ-large, more gracefully?” “Many places have experienced this common trajectory.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world. to prevent sloppy errors and wasted time.

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

Strategy Driven

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. Build bonds to strengthen trust. So did we succeed?

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." The more test events completed, the better prepared organizers will be to manage spectators' security come Games-time. Challenge your team to align and share goals. Publically back the risky moves.

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

Harvard Business Review

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. Build bonds to strengthen trust. So did we succeed?

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

A focus on solutions might mean they figure out how to help you reach your goal weight. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. Is it a project?