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If You Want To Tell A Kick-Ass Story, Do These 3 Things

Digital Tonto

Stories, as Hollywood mogul Peter Guber has put it, provides emotional transport for ideas. It is, of course, crucial to get your facts straight, but if you don’t learn how to tell a story, those facts will be easily forgotten.

Study 190
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This is what failure actually looks like

Idea to Value

A drug dealer had been caught by the police, and had therefore lost the 273kg of methamphetamine which he was transporting in his van. After which of course the police chased and caught the perpetrator and found the drugs. Of course not. These drugs were worth an estimated AUD $200 million, or about US $140 million.

Course 242
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Is Free Public Transportation the Answer for Germany to Meet Pollution Norms of EU?

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: DW Akademie recently reported that Germany would like to experiment with making public transportation free in 5 of its cities to explore if this can help it meet the pollution norms of European Union. In an ideal world, they might even be willing to take public transportation instead of taking their cars out.

Meeting 49
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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

The IEA track the following aspects of the energy system; power, fuel, industry, transport, buildings, and energy integration. Emissions from oil and gas extraction, processing, and transport rose marginally in 2018 to around 5.4 Tracking Transport. Global transport emissions increased by less than 0.5%

Policies 195
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From A to B: Keeping Your Local Business Transportation Costs Down

The Human Factor

You don’t, however, want your transport costs to eat into your profit margin too much. The biggest cost for your transport operations will, of course, be the fuel that your vehicles need. If you can make so that you use less gas, then you’ll have permanently reduced your transport costs, and by a not-insignificant margin.

Course 28
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Building and refining the interfaces in learning ecosystems (Part 4)

Christensen Institute

Most families need reliable child care and transportation throughout the day, value the supervised socialization that happens in schools, and don’t want to worry about how an amalgamation of learning experiences fits together into a cohesive educational program that is recognized as a marker of readiness for postsecondary opportunities.

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Three Trends in Supply Chain Innovation

IdeaScale

A good example is collaborative transportation management. Especially with transportation labor roles sitting unfilled for weeks or even months, expect to start seeing companies use software to collaborate on getting their items where they need to go. Of course, this is just what’s expected.

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