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Using Underdog Narratives To Motivate Teams

The Horizons Tracker

” Fighting spirit For instance, consider Apple’s situation in 2001 just before launching the iPod, when the company was facing difficult times. However, Apple’s commitment to innovation and its collective underdog identity revolutionized the way people interact with technology.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9 percent.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.

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The Path to Transparency

Coaching Tip

WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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Servant Leadership Library

Modern Servant Leader

Jim Collins 2019 Other Business Balance Case for Servant Leadership The author argues that servant leadership is ethical, practical, and meaningful. Ethically intelligent people know how to use this awareness the right way. Ethical intelligence may be the most practical form of intelligence there is Ñ and the most valuable.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.” Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records. There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter.

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