Prior to the formation of AfBAA, business aviation had sparse representation across the extent of the continent, with the Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) centered in Dubai, the UAE addressing Northern Africa, and the Business Aviation Association of Southern Africa (BAASA) dealing with operators in and around the nation of South Africa.

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Think Amazon, eBay, and Google that offered more than just a digital representation of an offline business.

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Is this going to be a perfect representation of your own business?

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Proportional representation would be required before local business rates could be restored to local determination.

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Journalists, smelling a sensational headline, promoted that number, despite that fact that it is not really the most accurate representation of the economics of the underlying business.

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Meeting a target representation coupled with an absence of a clear business case raised issues, particularly for men, who appeared to be missing the fact-based reasons for addressing the imbalance.

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Business Secretary Vince Cable has written to the seven FTSE 100 companies with no female representation at the highest level to ask what steps they are taking to increase diversity.

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Beyond the call of duty to impact and influence organizational business goals, ERGs must remain continually focused on building a talent pipeline, increasing representation and inclusiveness (that includes expanding the role of executive sponsors), and advancing their employer of choice efforts.

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