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We need to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Idea to Value

We need to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, for the following reasons: Japan’s elderly population. I worked for more than 2 years on the London 2012 Olympics directly with the athletes, and have seen first hand what the Games are like, in the stadium and in the athletes village. Dear International Olympic Committee – IOC.

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Brands In Memoriam 2012

CorporateIntel

” As a result of creative destruction, every year we add more once significant names to the Dead Brand Graveyard. Recent memory had us bid adieu to such iconic enterprises as Palm, Saab, Lehman Brothers, Zenith, Compaq, Borders, Circuit City, Ritz Camera, CompUSA, Mervyn’s, Friendster, Tower Records, Polaroid, and Kodak.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

Seizing the grand opportunity was Charles Tiffany, who bought the shares of Young and Ellis, and shifted the merchandise towards jewelery. An example of this is Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover who both committed to stop selling cars that are powered by internal combustion engines only, by 2020. Source: Mckinsey [/caption].

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Building A Sustainable Future: Can Technology Help Save The Environment?

Acuvate

As the way we live has changed, so has the world around us. Besides regulatory pressure, companies know that sustainability can be a competitive advantage. Fossil fuels revolutionized industry, transportation and power generation but have also contributed to an alarming rise in global temperatures and pollution. billion metric tons.

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

Competition is accelerating, of course, and so is innovation. It's common for the management team to turn over during this transition - idealistic people who created killer products leave and people who can manage existing products and squeeze revenue and profits from current operations take over.

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Employee engagement and innovation

hackerearth

Even leaders who do value their employees frequently mistake employee satisfaction for employee engagement. Gallup defines engaged employees as people who are enthusiastic about, committed to, and involved in both their work and their workplace. So what about the management? Source: Kronos. What is employee engagement?

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Workplace Conflict: Statistics That Reveal Its Cost

CMOE

Rather than futilely attempting to avoid conflict, we need to understand it and look at it from a different perspective. It’s possible to learn how to effectively manage conflict with training. The first step we can take to better understand conflict is to explore why and when conflict occurs in the workplace.