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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

When Nobel Laureate, Michael Levitt, first analyzed Chinese infection rates, he tracked an increase of 30% per day in Hubei province. Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel. At that rate, the entire world would be infected in 90 days.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”

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The Strategic Value of APIs

Harvard Business Review

APIs allow firms to expand into markets they may never have previously considered. Through APIs, IBM also hopes to create multiple ecosystems that allow it to access many new markets. Outside of health care, Watson is already creating new ecosystems for IBM in radically new areas such as recipe making, shopping, and travel.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. Keep moving!

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The iPhone 5 Launch Will Be Successful

Harvard Business Review

The irrational behavior that Apple products provoke represents the piece of the product puzzle that only Apple has uncovered in the mobile-phone market. To understand why Apple's crazy culture is so important, it's necessary to revisit two of marketing's most important contributions. good terms and conditions, excellent delivery).

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