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Small Steps Lead to Big Disasters

Take a disaster and deconstruct it step-by-step. You'll often find a series of small, seemingly innocuous actions that eventually boiled over into chaos -- like the butterfly's flapping wings that created atmospheric changes causing a hurricane. The economic crisis may be the result of such a cas...
Trust Your Own Internal Compass

Where would we be without cell phones, email, the Internet? Technology's great, but there is a point of diminishing or even negative returns. All successful managers have an internal compass that distinguishes between technology the productivity tool and technology the black hole that sucks you in, chews you up, and spits you out.
How to Win a Standards War

Standards wars may be Darwinian capitalism at its finest. But they sure are a pain at first to technology partners, who must predict whether the platform they are buying into today will even work tomorrow. So how to win the war?
Seven Tips for Successful First-Time Buyouts

Now might be the perfect time for that management buyout (MBO) you've dreamt of, says Phil Riman, partner at White & Black Legal, a specialist in securing venture capitalist and private equity funding. Neglected or pared down bits of a business that are still going concerns offer would-be o...
Improve Sales by Monitoring Online Feedback

While customer word-of-mouth has always been a key component in a product's success or failure, it has become even more crucial in the internet age, where customers can rave about a book on Amazon or rant about bad customer service on CitySearch and share their opinions with people across the world....
The Death of the Virtual Office

In a global economy, workers can't be tethered to their desks. Organizations must be designed to provide staffers with maximum freedom to work where they are most productive. And telecommuting must be encouraged to promote family balance and a healthier environment. Yes, the virtual office seemed...
Housing is the Key to Economic Recovery

Housing led us into this financial mess but it could lead us out too. The turn in US property prices in 2005 caused the sub-prime crisis that caused the credit crunch two years later which resulted today's global recession. The boom in UK house prices reversed in October 2007, almost as soon as th...
Marshmallows: The Secret of Improving your EQ

In his seminal book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goldman maintains that the master aptitude of the emotionally intelligent person as the ability to delay self-gratification. As proof Goldman cited the marshmallow experiment carried out by Walter Mischel in the late 1960s at the Bing Nursery Scho...
Inspiration for Intrepid Gourmet Travellers

Even though Aussies love to travel, you'd still have to assume becoming a new entrant in the outbound holiday market would be a risky move. It tends to be reliant on moving high volumes of price-sensitive customers in a low-margin business susceptible to fuel prices, terrorism fears and the odd epid...
Surviving the Perfect Storm | BTalk Australia

(Episode 255: 13min 17) 1998 was a fateful year for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Six people lost their lives and 42 of the 155 boats had to be rescued, after a freak storm hit the fleet off the coast of Eden. It's a story of survival that has fascinated Paul Kessler from The Syncretics Group....
An Inspirational Poem About Productivity

For your Friday reading pleasure, I bring you a poem penned by beighartman at the sieve and the sand. Ponder this, if you will, as the weekend looms. Productivity Is relative To the amount Of work Being done In the first place. Perhaps to feel more Productive The least Amount of wor...
Where to Find a "Green" Job

There are a gazillion new green job boards out there populated with unpaid internships, one-man consulting shops and work from home scams. Here is where to find the legitimate executive positions in the green field.
Free Market Madness? | HBR IdeaCast

A market economy is the result of millions of people making decisions -- sometimes bad decisions, like the ones that sparked the current financial crisis. According to Peter Ubel, this is proof enough that the U.S. economy needs more regulation. Americans are optimists, and the free market allows us...
When Government Protectionist Policies Hurt Economic Success

Earlier this week, I posted an interview with Cornell's Dr. Robert Frank, who believes that government intervention is the best way out of an economic slump. While a few readers left comments supportive of Frank's ideas, the majority strongly felt that the less government involves itself with busine...
Management Lessons from Nadal v. Federer

The Find: Not every business lesson has to come from dry academic research ?€" instead, one blog is mining one of tennis' greatest rivalries for lessons on how to take down seemingly invincible competitors. The Source: A fun and informative post on The Business Insider. The Takeaway: It's F...

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