How do people think outside of the proverbial box? They know how to view things more expansively. Here's how.
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Want help focusing on what really matters? Ask yourself these on a daily basis.
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Genius sometimes just means not realizing that something is impossible.
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How will people remember you long after you've found success? You can only hope it goes something like this.
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The process of selecting insurance for your business may be tedious, but if calamity strikes you'll be happy that you're properly insured.
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The German idea of sending Athens a 'budget commissioner' was daft. Berlin itself could not tolerate such interference in its fiscal sovereignty (the constitutional court would never allow it). But to restrict such budgetary oversight to Greece alone would be disdainful and a political non-starter. The idea predictably caused outrage in Greece.
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Turkey announced it would freeze the financial assets of Syria, its southern neighbor, and prevent all weapons deliveries to the country until the regime of Bashar al-Assad ceases its assaults on civilians protesting autocratic rule and agrees to step down.
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The economic outlook for 2012 is very different than it was a year ago. The cautious optimism that reigned in the first half of 2011 has faded amid renewed uncertainty about the state of the global economy and malaise about the future. The road to recovery is a difficult one, and strong leadership and resolute collective commitment to change are now needed to unblock progress in 2012. Sinking into helpless pessimism is not an option: we need to re-inject hope and confidence.
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When more than 2,600 of the world's richest, cleverest, most powerful, influential or entrepreneurial people are cooped up in a Swiss mountain valley, surely something must come out of it?
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Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear that the company’s new censorship policies will muffle online freedom. News reports recall the ways in which protestors have had made use of Twitter to oppose dictatorships, and dissidents express concern that their ability to communicate will be harmed. The more immediate issue, however, may lie elsewhere. Twitter’s new policies demonstrate vividly the complicated relationship between Internet freedom and democratic government.
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Some commentators argue these days that the much-celebrated Arab Spring is turning out to be an “Islamic Spring.” For as they point out, Islamist parties have won the ballots in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. It is very safe to expect similar results in Libya, and, once the tyranny of Bashar al-Assad and his fellow thugs hopefully falls, in Syria. A more democratic Arab world, it seems, will also be a more Islamic one.
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Change is difficult for everyone, even for those who say they've come to bring change.
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Instead of being blinded by the risks of social media , businesses should open their eyes to its potential.
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When we read inspirational stories of people who quit their stressful jobs to start their own businesses, it moves us. We say to ourselves, wow, if they can make it happen, so can I.
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Turkish financial and business circles are insisting that the EU's crisis will not harm the prospects for investment and continued economic growth. Ankara is due to start accession negotiation with Brussels on October 3, but the closer the talks get, the more distant membership prospects appear to become.
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In 2010-30 the Economist Intelligence Unit expects Turkey's macroeconomic environment to be considerably more stable than in the 1990s or in 2000-01, helped by the IMF-backed stabilisation programme covering 2005 to early 2008 and reforms to be introduced under EU membership negotiations, which were formally opened in October 2005.
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Turkey has a population of about 73m, making it potentially the second-largest market in Europe (behind Germany). The rate of population growth in Turkey is estimated to have averaged 1.4% per year in 2001-05, compared with 1.8% in the 1990s and around 2.5% between 1945 and 1980
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Too busy to work out? Think again. Check out these easy ways to get your health back on track.
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Running a startup is a lot different than running a more mature company. Will you be able to make the transition? Here are three ways to find out.
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Self-confidence is characterized by: assertiveness, optimism, eagerness, affection, pride, independence, trust, the ability to handle criticism, emotional maturity, and the ability to accurately assess our capabilities.
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This post is about innovation. But before we get started, imagine the produce area in your local supermarket.
Were you able to do it?
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Successful company culture can make the difference between a workplace people dread and one they brag about.
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CEO’s, like everyone else, get frustrated, and when they do, you can sometimes catch them talking to themselves. For example, when confronted with an unnecessarily stubborn corporate problem, more than one CEO has been heard to mumble, “Darn, I’m positive someone in our company knows the answer to this.”
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The most successful owners, like the best athletes, know there's no reaching the top. There's only working harder and learning faster than the next guy.
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Futurists and smart thinkers weigh in on the technology that will change how you'll do business. The verdict? The future looks bright.
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Next year's economy will be hostage to the scary Euro crisis and towering debts at home. Here's how to get your business ready for a tough year.
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In the past few days, Verizon and GoDaddy.com have both reversed courses, pushed to change policies and proclamations by a groundswell of customer dissatisfaction. After thousands of customers switched away from GoDaddy.com domains, prompted to do so by a social media campaign headed by Reddit users, the company reversed its approval of the SOPA Internet-censorship bill. Verizon’s ill-conceived $2 fee for one-time online payments couldn’t even survive 24 hours, immediately targeted by vocal web users.
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Its Christmas – a time for celebration. But most of all, it is that time of the year when industry leaders reflect on their business’s progress over the past year that has gone by and the New Year’s plan of how to develop their business. The whole office is fired up and the teams are assigned with various tasks and job responsibilities.
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Can we talk for a minute about how well Google knows me? Or i-tunes? Or Amazon? Or Pandora?
It's weird, isn't it? All these assumptions, made by a mess of magnetic dust, a collection of binary 1's and 0's. These 1's and 0's think they got me all figured out. I mean, is this even possible?
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The perils of the open Android OS to Google: major competitors will hijack Android by building their own version, and then lock Google’s services out. MG observes that Amazon is starting to do this: the Kindle Fire redirects attempts to go to Google’s Android Market to the Amazon App Store.
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As 2012 approaches, many people are putting pen to paper on the usual New Year’s Resolutions: Eat healthier, go to the gym, save more money. Good intentions, to be sure, but those promises often fall by the wayside before January is even over. So forget the resolutions this year, and instead ask yourself some questions that will actually encourage some change. Below are 10 questions you should ask yourself to get your wallet, your portfolio and your future primed and ready for a successful 2012.
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Just as cloud computing is a game-changer for many companies, it is also changing the nature of jobs – not only within the information technology department, but in other parts of the enterprise as well.
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Silicon Valley's talent wars are going younger.
Bay Area tech companies, already in a fierce fight for full-time hires, are now also battling to woo summer interns. Technology giants like Google Inc. have been expanding their summer-intern programs, while smaller tech companies are ramping up theirs in response—sometimes even luring candidates away from college
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For centuries there has been a jostle for power in the South Caucasus, a region at the crossroads between East and West and of considerable geostrategic importance.
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The resemblance between France and “old Turkey” is striking. One similarity regards their attitudes towards history. The French government is attempting to construct a “historical truth” for its citizens, who are not considered capable of making up their own minds about the events of the past.
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A man-made disaster triggered the worst of last year’s Forbes CEO screwups list, when BP chief Tony Hayward committed a series of public gaffes in the wake of the April 2010 Gulf oil spill, and then resigned the following October.
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Whether it’s a high-profile tech company like Yahoo!, or a more established conglomerate like GE or Home Depot, large companies have a hard time keeping their best and brightest in house. Recently, GigaOM discussed the troubles at Yahoo! with a flat stock price, vested options for some of their best people, and the apparent free flow of VC dollars luring away some of their best people to do the start-up thing again.
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Jobs was different from many other corporate leaders in that he always knew what he wanted.
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Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.
Do them.
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In one of my last articles, I tried to summarize why I believe Turkey is one of the hottest countries in the internet space. The questions, mails, tweets and all other communication after that article was overhelming. And one of the most asked questions was about the Turkish eCommerce… This is how the story of this article started in my mind.
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Mining Opportunity, Cross-Border Trading Opportunities, Investment Opportunities in Agriculture in Afghanistan,
Mining in Afghanistan
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Tanzania Industrial Investment Opportunities, Fruit and Vegetable Processing,Edible oil Manufacturing, Coffee Industry, Fish processing Industries, Sisal Industry, Cotton, Textile Industry and Apparel, Leather Industry, Mining Sector
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The basic characteristics of an oppressive regime are not only cruelty, repression, control of all vestiges of personal and public life, rigged elections and censorship, but also nepotism, unjust distribution of wealth and privileges (as if the country were owned by the ruling cabal), corruption and opaqueness in the administration.
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