This strategy can be much more positive for those in transition.

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Some ways to minimize risk and make the transition as positive as possible are to explain the rationale to the employee to generate buy-in, keep the salary and benefits comparable to the old position and ensure the responsibilities of the new position do not demean the employee.

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Economists, who do not truck in cloaks and daggers, have asked a dispassionate question: Could it be that oligarchs play a positive role, particularly in transition countries such as Russia, Ukraine, or Kazakhstan where there are so few entrepreneurs?

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That said, the TNC has made very positive statements about wanting to pursue an inclusive transition, about wanting to broaden the nature of the government to include some additional elements of the opposition that were based in different parts of the country.

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If we do, the technological transition that we are living through can turn into a positive moment of advance for the media rather than a moment of decline.

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She pointed to recent elections as among the positive steps the U.S. is seeing Egypt taking in its transition to democracy.

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Similarly, the regional and now cohesion funds had positive effects in the British economy in the Seventies and later in the transition economies such as Ireland.

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