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08/22/17
Best Books For Beating Business Disruption
Bonus Question: When we get rid of banking, is Occupy Wall Street out of a job? “The human being is best at interpreting all new information so that...
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08/22/17
GE’s Jeff Immelt Knows How To Fix Uber
America’s vaunted hi tech companies are too important to leave them in the hands of brilliant, but immature neophytes. It’s time to bring in a leader...
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08/14/17
Elon Musk Hates Advertising and P&G Is Listening
We don’t know whether Musk is too smart or too cheap to spend money on traditional advertising, but as a result he created most iconic automobile...
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08/10/17
Are You a Hindering Leader? Or a Helpful Leader? (Quiz)
Research by Thunderbird professors Kannan Ramaswamy and Bill Youngdahl shows that most successful organizations succeed not because of their leaders...
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07/21/17
My Dad Made Me a Better Dad
No one is perfect, everyone is perfectible. An alpaca can be trained to do just about anything. In fact, alpacas will gladly play catch, sit, and even...
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07/21/17
The Joys of Contrarian Travel
If you want to meet a better class of people, try taking your vacation in lousy weather I came up with a new angle on travel. The shorthand version is...
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01/10/23
Eight essential international business skills
Learn eight essential international business skills to prevent and handle costly mistakes that can occur in transnational business.
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01/09/23
What is global leadership?
Learn about global leadership and the skills that future business leaders need to be successful global leaders, including developing a Global Mindset.
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12/13/22
Buyer beware: how online retailers manipulate prices and what consumers can do to protect themselves from overpaying
Who doesn’t like a bargain? During the last weeks of the year, consumers around the world are looking for good deals for end-of-year holiday shopping...
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