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01/20/17
Crisis Management: Two Hidden Leadership Opportunities
By Christine Pearson, Ph.D., Professor of Global Leadership Since the dawn of organizational crisis management, decades ago, I have made it my...
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06/21/16
Lessons from my student
This week I had the pleasure of meeting a former Thunderbird student of mine on our Glendale campus. Mark Rieper ’01 was a particularly bright young...
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06/21/16
Thunderbird Hosts Former First Lady of Ghana, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings
It was a calm breezy morning November 22, 2013 when I entered the admissions office to start my usual daily work as a Graduate Assistant. Following a...
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06/06/16
Adaptive Leadership for the VUCA World: A Tale of Two Managers
Many organizations and managers are struggling to stay afloat and aligned in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of today’s global...
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11/22/13
Succeeding with Four Audience Types
Not all audiences are created equal. The same public speaker can start the same speech with the same joke and get laughter from people on one day and...
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11/22/13
10 Steps to Halt the Contagion of Workplace Incivility
Seemingly inconsequential acts of bad behavior can spread through your organization like the flu, taking a financial and emotional toll if left...
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01/10/23
Eight essential international business skills
Learn eight essential international business skills to prevent and handle costly mistakes that can occur in transnational business.
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01/09/23
What is global leadership?
Learn about global leadership and the skills that future business leaders need to be successful global leaders, including developing a Global Mindset.
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12/13/22
Buyer beware: how online retailers manipulate prices and what consumers can do to protect themselves from overpaying
Who doesn’t like a bargain? During the last weeks of the year, consumers around the world are looking for good deals for end-of-year holiday shopping...
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