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Is The Covid Recession Starving Startups Of Talent?

The Horizons Tracker

The incumbent [companies], just by nature of having more cash or by being more established, are perceived safer during the crisis, and suddenly have a unique advantage in terms of attracting talent.”. Safe haven. Instead, they are just as likely to seek safe harbor as anyone else in times of turbulence.

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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World

Innovation Excellence

First and foremost, if we are in a position to do so, we should of course be rolling up our sleeves, and trying to help with the unfolding crisis. We are presented with a huge opportunity to nudge, seed and begin to establish future habits, and to create safe harbors that will thrive as the storm clears. Actions Now Matter.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. is in a jobs crisis, and one of the few bright spots on the horizon are tech firms like Facebook and Twitter. That is the equivalent of making phone carriers liable for conversations that are being made on their phone lines. At best, it will send them fleeing overseas.

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Five Tips for Coping with Uncertainty — and Finding Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

debt crisis before deciding what and where to invest or whether to hire. 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.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. The crisis could be a boon to disruptive forces.

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Remaining Objective Is Hard, But the Best Leaders Figure Out How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

I think each would agree that leading in the intelligence community is a daily exercise in crisis management, whether at the helm of CIA with its global analytic and operational responsibilities, or at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with its oversight responsibilities for the entire intelligence community.

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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. Syrians no longer feel as welcome as they did when the Turkish border first opened to give them safe harbor.