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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. Africa is the next growth market. Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution.

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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

One New York assignment was as head of the transportation practice. “I We had a tiny transportation team – just a few people. The transportation orange didn’t have much more juice. The opportunity was big: supervise eighty people, a $100 million business, with a much higher profile than transportation. I just took it.

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Great Leaders Know Core Business Model Vision

Great Leadership By Dan

His vision to serve customers in a profitable way meant to be at least first or second in its respective markets or get rid of the product. A recent development of great leadership vision is Elon Musk’s Tesla organization and its core business model. Jacks’ vision fixed GE’s focus and GE’s core business model.

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Slow Down. You Move Too Fast. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

Bathasar Gracian, writes about the need to transport ourselves, if necessary, for some people are ignored in one city but are considered a prodigy in yet another city. The lesson for me is that one can, so to speak, play one mean fiddle, but if one is in the wrong place at the wrong time, it won’t be appreciated by anyone.

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5 Apps to Help You Have A Paperless Office

Lead Change Blog

I remember once trying to turn around the attitude of an unproductive marketing team. All the signs were there , but convincing everyone to raise their game needed far more than my leadership skills. One reason people still rely on paper files is because they believe they’re more transportable than those contained on a hard disk.

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Electrical vehicles in transportation. Markets are where the value of innovations are articulated. Markets are where the value of innovations are articulated. Business, and markets more broadly, are often the catalyst for innovation and are thus a critical players in our innovation challenge. And the list goes on.

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Sustainability and Being Green – Do Your Customers Actually Care?

Women on Business

They had a different dye in them but other than that any claims of being “natural” or better for you were nothing but marketing hype. They measure consumer behavior across 65 areas from housing to transportation and buying of consumer goods. I quickly discovered, much to my dismay, that the three brands were virtually identical.