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What's Chinese for "sustainable"?

May 16, 2013
I've just returned from hosting the HRO Summit, a global sourcing conference in Singapore.  We started the conference with video on the pace of change in Asia-Pacific Read More

Paris: City of Insights

November 11, 2011
Newsflash: Europe is not America. Breaking News: Europe is not one country. My European colleagues like to tease me with this little bit of geographic trivia... I Read More

Ethical Dilemma #1: A Gaggle of Privacy Concerns -- When Truth Conflicts with Loyalty

September 25, 2010
As Kevin Moss mentioned in his earlier post, the CROA’s Professional Development Committee drafted an ethics code and came up with a set of ethical Read More
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