If a colleague gives you a token of his or her appreciation, must you run out and buy an iTunes gift card or a bottle of wine to show that you care too?

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The premise of the game is simple enough - in the role of mayor, you must build and run a city designed entirely to your specification.

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If you are thinking about how to better run a global marketing organization, you must take three minutes and read about an experiment run by Loren Carpenter back in 1991.

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In the beginning, you may do much of the day-to-day work of your organization, but to grow, you must delegate those jobs so you have time to run the business, as Margery Kraus, CEO of APCO Worldwide, a global consulting firm, and Hester Taylor Clark, founder of The Hester Group, a project management company, explain in Growing Means Learning to Work On Your Business Not In It.

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In order to survive in the financial markets over the long run, you must view the market as a thief.

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Remember that to run for public office, you must reveal your personal finances.

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Run with what you have, do what you must do to achieve the objective, and ignore the consequences.

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Moreover, given the frequency with which industry members run afoul of the disclosure obligations for charges and convictions, you must be aware of the events that need to be disclosed and the windows for such disclosure.

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But before we reveal the surprise results, we must still comply with full disclosure requirements and tell you how the process was run and what obligations all contestants will be under, as each vies for the title of American Banking Idol.

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