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How to be Decisive: 9 Ways to Make a Decision You Won’t Regret

RapidStart Leadership

Be careful not to jump at a short-term opportunity if it doesn’t move you closer to your long term objectives. Don't take a short term opportunity at the expense of a long-term goal. Sail away from the safe harbor. Which option fits in better with your core values ? Click To Tweet.

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Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees

Harvard Business Review

It did not include a vision for long-term integration; nobody in Turkey foresaw the duration and severity of Syria’s humanitarian crisis. A long-term framework for integrating Syrian refugees is a pressing domestic policy to head off tensions like these.

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You Can’t Achieve Your Goals Without the Right Support

Harvard Business Review

We need the courage and confidence to demonstrate a “beginner’s mind” — a term from Zen Buddhism, referring to having an openness to learning, even at an advanced level. He was a safe harbor by nature and, given his integrity and candor, someone who could be a great mirror.

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Five Tips for Coping with Uncertainty — and Finding Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

Europeans wait for a resolution to financial woes from the south affecting the north, and in a safe, sane Nordic country, Norway, fear rises from a seemingly insane terrorist shooting that cost nearly a hundred lives. Safe harbors have uncertainty, too. That can pay off regardless of changing directions. provides grounding.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

But with his open letter to Cook, Icahn has let the public know once again that however much Apple buys back, he feels it has the current cash, borrowing capacity, and long-term profit prospects to do much, much more. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

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Expert Q&A: Understanding the DOL’s Overtime Rules

HR Digest

The DOL says this revision was “long overdue in light of wage and salary growth since 2004. In the long run, this would be less of a burden for the employer. The FSLA has a Safe Harbor Policy for employers who are yet not ready for the new overtime rule enforcement and make some inadvertent mistakes.

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How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the Whole U.S. Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

It was not so long ago that news of the PRISM program — the massive surveillance effort undertaken by the NSA — was made public as part of the Edward Snowden revelations. The damage has also extended through to Europe, specifically through the Safe Harbor provisions that govern the transfer of data between the U.S.