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Are Rising Transport Costs Behind Higher Cost Of Living?

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from George Washington University suggests that higher transportation costs may actually play a bigger part. These approaches seldom use formal models of a city, however, and therefore ignore things like the cost of transport on the cost of living. “The city housing market is like a balloon,” the authors say.

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Sustainable Transportation as a Corporate Strategy

Strategy Driven

Specifically, implementing a sustainable transportation policy as a corporate strategy offers significant value from environmental and financial benefits to increased efficiency and social advantages. Hence, a company or government entity can subsidize transportation costs or give free passes to employees.

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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. The vision of sustainable clean electric transport for the masses is close with the introduction and production of the automaker’s Model 3. Great leaders know core business model vision.

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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.

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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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