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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. This also includes Bitcoin (created in 2008) and Ethereum (created in 2015). Reading Time: 6 minutes. What is the value of digital currency?

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. 2020 has been replete with inspiring stories of organizations acting quickly to address immediate needs. Build Agility. Breweries pivoted to making hand sanitizers. Think again.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. ZB by 2020. Companies are both operators and investors. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

First, I have helped my CEO clients navigate multiple industry, capital market, and economic crises over the past 25 years. There was the Great Recession in 2008. And now we are in 2020. I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. There was 9/11 in 2001.

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Tesla: Leading the Charge Toward Sustainability

Tom Spencer

The company has consistently pushed the boundaries of what is possible with EVs, starting with the Tesla Roadster in 2008, the first long-range electric sports car. This was followed by the Model X, a sport utility vehicle with falcon-wing doors, and the Model 3, a more affordable option for mass market appeal.

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