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White Gold: A Story of Persistence

RapidStart Leadership

Hoping to take advantage of this opportunity, in 1866 Samuel Platt organized the Goderich Petroleum Company in Ontario, Canada, secured the backing of local investors, and started drilling on the north bank of the Maitland River. The mine is part of Compass Minerals , a conglomerate with a market capitalization of $2.5

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Definitions of these three terms will help to differentiate their intended objectives: Collaborations - Parties willingly cooperating together. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Professional societies and associations.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open. Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes. The way to avoid conflict is to help those around you achieve their objectives.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with.

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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

Economists built "general equilibrium" models that, underneath all the fancy math, just assumed markets are stable and optimal. None of those nations' principal banks got in trouble, and growth there suffered far less than in the advanced nations. In fact, it wasn't a global financial crisis; it was a North Atlantic financial crisis.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? And, in truth, most of us won’t cook the books, steal from customers, or take that bribe. We tell ourselves that we would never do those things.

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How Managers Can Make Casual Networking Events More Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Some years ago, at a former company, I began noticing a curious series of events.