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When Expanding into a Foreign Market, Your Outsider Status Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

Entering a foreign market comes with inherent challenges. Whether capitalizing on outsider status to tap into local labor markets, establishing potent associations to build credibility, or forging strategic partnerships to foster mutual international growth, your foreignness can indeed become your competitive edge.

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Managing your Energy, Time, and Tasks to have a Complete Day

Tom Spencer

As most of us spend the majority of our time working, it’s important to consider where that time is spent, how to manage your tasks and energy, and how to ultimately find fulfilment. Manage your energy. Know where you spend your time. In order to manage your money, you need to know how much is coming in and where it is going.

Energy 154
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Consulting Pipeline: 4 Steps To Consistent Consulting Clients

Consulting Success

My main challenge is filling my pipeline so I’ve been putting a lot of energy into marketing. Recently, a Clarity Coaching client reached out about the challenges they were having with their consulting pipeline. “My This fall I changed the focus of my non-profit consulting practice. By far, most of my work had been with a.

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In Defense of Degrowth

Harvard Business

The article advocates for a societal movement toward reducing consumption and over-production, while embracing values of care and redistribution, challenging traditional market-first ideologies.

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Energy Prices: Is Volatility Here to Stay?

Tom Spencer

Skyrocketing energy prices in the wake of the post-pandemic economic recovery has been all over the news, and for good reason. The rising cost of energy feeds into the pricing of all goods, causing inflation globally. McKinsey, BCG, Bain and the Big Four all have specific divisions to cater for clients from the energy industry.

Energy 88
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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Energy transitions occur from time to time, due to the discovery of new energy sources such as coal or due to policy changes, such as France’s embrace of nuclear energy. Energy transitions have occurred throughout history, from burning wood to coal, then oil and natural gas. Background.

Energy 88
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Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?

Harvard Business

How Brazil’s green energy champion, Raízen, is expanding the market for second-generation ethanol and other sugar-cane waste biofuels.