Business Environment
the current economic woes look a lot like what my 96-year-old grandmother still calls "the real Great Depression." She pinched pennies in the 1930s but she says that times were not nearly so bad as the depression her grandparents went through. That crash came in 1873
Business Environment
* Pay the Salaries of 22 Million People * Establish Universal Health Coverage * Purchase a Communications System for Emergency Medical Services * Build Levees around New Orleans * Buy Denmark -- Twice * Finance Germany's Entire National Budget for Over a Year * Fight Poverty in Africa for 10 Years * Finance all US Intelligence Operations
Business Environment
The money meltdown.
Persons
A presentation with written words only. Self-standing and brilliant. Watch it... and do something! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw] thanks Rowan.
Strategy
By 2015, the United States will have more than 45 million households with people from 51 to 70 years old, compared with about 25 million for the “silent” generation, born from 1925 to 1945. Their real disposable income and consumption will be roughly 40 percent higher, and they will control
Buzzwords
Corporate Buzzwords that Need to Die Corporate Buzz Words
Business Environment
The Industrial Era is ending. Its extraordinary successes—advances in literacy, life expectancy, human rights, and technology—have propelled us headlong into a myriad of side effects: food and water shortages, cyclonic destruction, prolonged drought and rising sea levels. To delay acknowledging the need for lifestyle and business changes risks
Business Communication
On the nature of storytelling and its redeeming power (from an interview with the Screenplayers): "Storytelling is the primary civilizing instrument in culture," he said. He then quoted Aristotle: "‘When the storytelling goes bad in society, the result is decadence.’ The way out," he continued, "
presentation
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
Teaching and Learning
One professor is including a policy on this issue in her course outline.
Business Environment
The RAND Review has looked into the future and identified “important policy issues not currently receiving the attention they deserve in the public debate”. Managers should be mindful of many of them: 1. The Aging Couple 2. Corporate America’s Next Big Scandal 3. Innovative Infrastructure 4. The Day After:
Manage the business
A trans-Atlantic culture clash at Alcatel-Lucent, the French-American telecommunications equipment maker created in a $10.7 billion merger two years ago, hit home when the company’s top two executives said they would step down. Patricia F. Russo, the American chief executive, and Serge Tchuruk, the French