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Acts of kindness help make people better... A question I ask myself often is how do I, as a leader, build an organization that has the best chance to succeed for the long term? How do we make sure that our people, our entire global workforce, are motivated and want to work? How do we […]
Pretty soon, working habits will be cemented in stone... It's no surprise that managers and workers feel differently about the future of work. Many business leaders have been hyping up the return to the office as the grand revival of the office life that was halted in early 2020. There are many factors that make […]
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The coronavirus pandemic emptied out the streets of Manhattan... With all the news you've likely read about Manhattan in the past 24 months, it's not surprising that people left the city in droves when the pandemic hit. From empty subway stations to a high incidence of violence to floods stranding passengers underground, transit has gotten […]
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One company is in particularly deep trouble... Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a tragedy on a massive scale, and this stark upending of European peace sent shockwaves across the world. From supply chain and operational disruptions to rising commodity prices, this crisis is causing many international companies to think about the world in a new […]
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Inflation is at 40-year highs... As the world reopened and folks felt more confident about safely going out both locally and abroad, demand for goods and services grew in quick succession. Plus, with bank accounts buoyed by stimulus cash, people were ready to splurge. From fancy new outfits for the return to the office to […]
Right now I'm in Cappadocia with my family... If you're unfamiliar, Cappadocia is the hot air balloon and cave-hotel capital of the world. It's already a neat experience to be up in a hot air balloon. It's another experience entirely to be up there with 100 other hot air balloons at the same time! From […]
2022 may not be going as planned for this aviation company... 2022 was supposed to be the first summer of travel in three years, after the 2021 travel season was derailed by surges in COVID-19 cases, driven by the delta and omicron variants. People were tired of being stuck at home, travel loyalty programs were […]
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Netflix (NFLX) made the wrong kind of history last week... For the first time in a decade, streaming king Netflix lost more than 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter. The first down quarter in a decade sent the stock plunging more than 35% on Wednesday, and it has continued to fall since. Netflix was once […]
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After bolstering its risk controls, the market has left JPMorgan Chase (JPM) in the dust... JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is known for calling it how it is, and he certainly pulled no punches on the company's earnings call a few weeks ago. Dimon delivered the news that the bank has built a $900 million credit […]
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Struggling companies like GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment (AMC) watched their stocks soar in 2021... As cult-like followings for these stocks sprang up on social media platforms such as Reddit, it kicked off a wave of "meme stock" mania. Retail investors sought to undermine what they believed to be out-of-touch billionaires who had made their […]
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- GME