Today, people need to pause and examine whether they are doing business as usual in a world that increasingly does not reward doing business as usual.

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However, they cannot do this by simply doing business as usual with respect to financial results and adding programs having to do with social and environmental improvements.

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So far it looks as if Myanmar's neighbours are simply looking for excuses to let them return to doing business as usual with its nasty regime, as soon as all the fuss has died down.

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Traders, including those in the fifth-floor mortgage division of Goldman's headquarters at 200 West Street in lower Manhattan, have been reminded by their bosses to stay focused and keep doing business as usual despite all the distractions, according to people who heard the remarks.

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We should also look at our own businesses and ask ourselves whether we should be doing a Ron Johnson on our company, rather than continuing with business as usual as the world changes rapidly around us.

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"It is not business as usual anymore with the Russians, and there are consequences for doing what they are doing, " one senior U.S. official said.

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