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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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Developing in-demand management skills with CMI HTQs

Chartered Management Institute

Blackpool Transport and Blackpool Council were part of the deliberating party that validated our Level 5 Operational Management Diploma. This allows us to compete in different markets. The flexibility of CMI HTQs and CMIs position as a trusted partner in the market gives us a major incentive to continue expanding.

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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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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. Thora Dowdell was formerly in marketing and sales before becoming a business partner with Sean, initially in the music recording industry and later in Club Tattoo.

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