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Futurist Ari Wallach helps leaders more consciously and ethically shape tomorrow. In this futuristically-inclined TED talk, he prompts us to move beyond making decisions based on short-term goals and gains — an approach that makes the future more uncertain and less safe. In doing so, we are urged to instead ask the question: How can we…
Covid-19 is foisting changes on business that could be beneficial
The world has been turned on its head thanks to COVID19 and as with most negative things, such as wars and other pandemics, there is generally a hidden benefit that appears once the crisis is over. The fallout from the Coronavirus is already beginning to demonstrate new ways of working and bringing about changes to…
The Finn Red Line
The Economist reports on Finland’s role in the Euro Crisis: It has least to gain from a grand bargain to save the euro – and that could prove to become a big problem. As things currently stand around the Finn Red Line, Finland’s finance minister, Jutta Urpilainen, caused a stir when she said that her country…
Employees to Face Healthcare Sticker Shock
Those Americans who receive health care insurance through their employees may need to get comfortable with digging even deeper into their pockets. Over the next 18 months, businesses are expected to implement healthcare plans requiring higher deductibles. Large up-front, out-of-pocket costs are anticipated to become mandatory before any insurance coverage kicks in. This is because…
INSIGHT- GM recalls far from calamity for some dealers who find new customers, business
The news about deadly crashes linked to a faulty ignition switch, followed by wave upon wave of recalls, did not go down well for General Motors dealers earlier this year. But according to Robbie Long, service director for the dealer, what looked like “great adversity” has turned into an opportunity. The hundreds of customers bringing old cars…
Insight: Ageing deepens debt-laden Europe’s economic woes
Who would’ve thought that biology and economics would come to be so closely related for a problematic Europe? Indeed, Reuters reports that long after the main causes of Europe’s economic woes are rooted out, the country will be grappling with an even more serious problem – how to pay for growing numbers of old people….