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

Strategy Driven

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? Yet, all of these Chinese big dreamers are also at the top of their organizations and have the power to move their dreams as well as author them. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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