This is a paradox of modern tech: we are faced with increasingly huge tech giants like Apple and Google that provide most of our hardware and a huge chunk of the online infrastructure that we rely upon.

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They are faced with increasingly difficult physical circumstances: the food web is thinning out, many animals and plants have gone missing, their main food source a type of primitive grass is threatened, and they have to be on the lookout constantly for hostile animals, other less-evolved dinosaurs with more violent survival strategies.

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Faced with an increasingly diverse workforce due not only to generational differences, but also globalization, later retirement dates and a host of other factors, organizations have a number of critical talent management decisions: ranging from taking into account varying skills of employees to dealing with differing preferences and motives.

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With rising global wheat and feed prices, farmers are also increasingly faced with the dilemma of how to produce more food from fewer resources.

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However, faced with competition from the storage market leader EMC in its core unified storage market, NetApp may find it increasingly hard to gain further market share.

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