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Jason Yip, a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks in Sydney, Australia, plays music such as Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up, " to round up colleagues.

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"When a currency is weak somewhere, inevitably it makes the relative costs lower, " explains Rebecca Powers, a principal global consultant at Mercer.

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Steve Parrish is a national advanced solutions consultant of Principal Life Insurance, a member of the Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa.

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"Many prices have fallen quite a bit, so there's now a lot of opportunity, " says Edward Schwartz, a principal at real-estate consultant ORG Portfolio Management.

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"These are the right kind of folks to do this, " says Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.

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Using icons that predict wet weather more often than it occurs has been standard practice in meteorology, said Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.

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