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In 2009, Nokia was the 5th most valuable brand in the world. Their phones were an object of desire everywhere. One year before I bought a used N80, and even with a few scratches, it looked so much better than the competing phones. Fast-forward to 2014 and Nokia dropped to 98th place in the ranking. […]
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Business Risk Assessments for Every Entrepreneur A simple but efficient way to assess the types of business risk is the Impact vs Likehood matrix. Often we learn it at business school, but later in our careers and projects, we forget it. Big mistake! This is an exceptional tool for entrepreneurs and managers when assessing uncontrollable
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International Students and Young Professionals: A Guide for Adjusting to a New Culture Step 1 on the Cultural Adjustment Process When adapting to a new culture, get over the fact that you will never be 100% native. And you don’t need to. I start this article by making a minor excuse: the phrase you see
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How to Adapt in a New Country Faster with 3 Simple Actions Sitting here on my desk while I complete nearly a decade living abroad, I wondered what lessons I wish I knew at the beginning of my journey that would make immigrant adaptation (meaning my own adaptation to life in a new country) much
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Often Cases of Expat Assignment Failure are Easy to Avoid We will list the reasons for expat failure in this article, but first, let’s define what that means. What do expatriate failure and expatriate success refer to? Expatriate failure can be defined as a group of factors that impede an expatriate’s success, such as early
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Here Is a List of Skills to Learn at Home, a Material That Can Boost Your Abilities Why, right now, an article with skills to learn at home? At this point, I bet you know most of the things about the virus, so I will not spend time with that. Rather, I want to list
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