What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change -- to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
The goal of this joint effort is to drive the behavioral change of caregivers of children 0-4 in targeted neighborhoods by educating them on early childhood brain development.
Despite the wealth of foreign investment in India, Kant also notes that the drive for change is coming from within the country.
And they need the skills (and the relationships) to drive change across the organization.
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Business can be a major force, in fact, the major force to drive positive change in the world.
The statistics highlight the dismal results that military leaders have achieved in their drive to change the culture within the ranks, even as the services redoubled efforts to launch new programs to assist the victims, encourage reporting and increase commanders' vigilance.
This will create a unique opportunity for suppliers of alternative solutions to replace the existing technology base and drive change into the market.
It is time to embrace the concept and practice of Governance as Leadership as we drive social change for the greater good in our world.
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He said that poverty rates were cut in half during Chavez's time in office but also noted the divisions that were created in the drive toward change.
The mission for Net Impact is to mobilize a new generation to use their careers to drive transformational change in the workplace and the world, so that by 2020 the norm is a bottom line that considers not only profit, but people and planet, too.
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Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee used a keynote speech at the event to launch the World Wide Web Foundation, a group set up to use the web to drive social and economic change, largely in the developing world.
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The hard power over local services and the soft power to do deals, bang heads together and formulate a vision for the future could drive real change and economic growth outside London, he said.
The dual-clutch transmission works via buttons in the center console that change the car from park to drive.
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If the Chinese can contribute to this effort and drive effective environmental change more quickly and single-mindedly than the U.S, it may be detrimental to the health of our economy, but perhaps not so bad for the health of the planet.
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"In filling this critical position, we looked for someone with experience both within and beyond the pharmaceutical industry who could bring new approaches and ideas to the company, along with a proven ability to drive change and growth, " Clark said in a statement at the time.
DSI's "A-Drive" is set to change the consumer and enterprise landscape, targeted specifically for tablets, ultrabooks, and future data centres.
He has authored and edited numerous scholarly research articles on consumer behavior, and he initiated and leads the HBS program titled Taking Marketing Digital, which helps guide marketers in the fast change and drive to digital.
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But I think that in a period of change people - there is friction and you will get a higher level of people who are dissatisfied, but it doesn't change the basic drive of banks which is to identify what customers want and to deliver it.
Donna Laframboise, for example, has documented absurd bias and activism with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where environmental activists drive the IPCC findings in their roles as lead authors.
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It's why there is a ferocious Whitehall row going on about new green energy targets: the Treasury fears they will drive up bills still further whilst the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) insists they will create green jobs for the future.
With that said, the challenge for business leaders today is harnessing the talent and drive of the younger workforce to create the products and technology that will change the world.
Having the vision and the guts to change your modus vivendi, to intuit the future and drive into virgin territory is the lesson Cohen teaches.
Behind the scenes there is frustration that it can prove lengthy - and costly to the public purse - to drive change to hospital services.
Such a change would very likely drive the market substantially higher.
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Innovators can help drive change by empowering consumers through the use of new technologies, making now an incredible time to be an innovator in this space.
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If social entrepreneurship is ultimately about solving pressing social and environmental problems, the best chance Korea, or any other society that needs positive change at scale, has at succeeding is building an ecosystem that generates a large pool of socially and environmentally conscious problem solvers citizens who have the skills and confidence to drive change when they see a problem so that we can outrun problems for good.
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Bluewater Network, which petitioned the EPA to change the calculation, argues that people just don't drive like that anymore.
The question remains whether we will drive that change to our advantage or be victimized by it.
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