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Channel Your Inner Cat to Survive in Business

On The Job

The statistics paint a bleak picture: From 2001-2011, only about 10% of companies actually met their growth targets, Bain & Co. Only 13% of Fortune 100 companies were able to sustain as little as 2% annual real revenue growth from one decade to the next over the past 50 years, reports CEB Inc. The market doesn’t stay still.

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Memories of the Office Age 

Workplace Insight

No author uses the built environment like J G Ballard. Although the lockdown was short in the grand scale of a lifetime, the reported “radical” changes in relationships during this period indicate that, for some, long-term alterations to their social ties may have occurred. New friendships have been formed and contact with others lost.

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Millions of tons of plastic are trashed every year. But what if we used it to pave our roads?

Ideas.Ted

This article first appeared in Yale Environment 360. . Albeit, it may be too early for many of the reported applications to show premature failure.”. India’s plastic road technology grew out of experimentation done in 2001 by R. A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

Finnigan says recruiters, who often called young job seekers “challenging,” now report Generation Y job candidates are more willing to compromise on salaries or job duties. Then the 2001 recession hit the Telecom and IT sector. That has caused what some might term an attitude adjustment. December 7, 2009 10:48 AM Anita said.

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