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Hawaii’s Optics Problem: A Travel Hotspot Struggles With Meetings Business

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An example of the backlash: Hawaii’s sunny optics hurt attendance at at least one recent conference. And Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr threatened to fire city employees who attended (one attendee from the Motor City, Cedric Cook, lost his job last month ). Neil Abercrombie had pushed hard for his state to get the event. “It

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How Do You Fix a Board Power Struggle?

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Andersson and Avery Edenfield, scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As an example, they discuss the removal of a nonprofit leader from an organization, and how to some degree it was a function of leaders having a different relationship to the documents that shape the organization.