87 Articles match "Book","downturn"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• The Value of Role Models in the Downturn
  
  This downturn's survivors will be the role models for a new kind of business practice that is more socially responsible not as an add-on or after-thought but as a first thought at the core of its business operations. Seeking role models - not just benchmarks - is one way to find an upside in the downturn. Book club organizers, now's your chance. It's hard to find many bright spots in the increasingly gloomy economy , but they're out there. Among big companies, IBM and Procter & Gamble are bright spots.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 2, 2009
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• E-Paper Market Too Large to Leave Alone
  
  At this point in the economic downturn, many IT companies are scratching their collective heads and wondering where the profits went. The bulk of e-paper revenues are derived from e-book displays. Practically all e-book devices employ E Ink’s electrophoretic display technology , a tiny number use using cholesteric LCD [ liquid crystal display ] technology - notably Fujitsu’s FLEPia. Since the furor made by the Kindle, and the case of the mysterious, disappearing title , we have seen several other  e-readers, of various types and styles. According to the story
  Lockergnome Blog Network - Thursday, August 27, 2009
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• Waking Up from the 'Nightmare on Tech Street'
  
  As Saul likes to say, you can't imagine handing down "your grandfather's iPod" the way you could your grandmother's watch, or tools, or furniture, or books. As I've said before, the best response to the downturn is to work on stuff that matters ! ...Tags: Reading Om Malik's Nightmare on Tech Street piece, I wonder if we're actually just waking up from the nightmare. Yes, the abrupt collapse of demand for consumer electronics and their ilk will hurt tech companies--I'm bracing my own for the slowdown--but the icy bath that brings down a killing fever trades
  OReilly Radar - Monday, December 22, 2008
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• Health Care Costs: Am I missing something? Or is there a lot of flimflam going on?
  
  this economic downturn, a lot of companies (including my own) have had to cut our costs a whole lot more than that in order to balance the books. Driving home from work, listening to NPR's story about health care costs , I couldn't help but be struck by a couple of numbers. The Obama health plan will cost a trillion dollars we're told.
  OReilly Radar - Friday, June 19, 2009
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• Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
  
  I've had more than one billionaire (and an awful lot of startups who hope to follow in their footsteps) tell me how they got their start with a couple of O'Reilly books. It's particularly tough to stay focused on big issues in the face of an economic downturn, because getting paid looms large. events were driven by the goal of reigniting enthusiasm in the computer industry as well as helping people to I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters . This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be.
  OReilly Radar - Sunday, January 11, 2009
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• Seeing Our Culture With Fresh Eyes
  
  But what makes this book most worth reading today is how many things the author takes for granted that we now know aren't so, and even find distasteful. The racism of the book is shocking precisely because it is so casual and thoughtless, the innate assumption of white superiority. We're in the middle of a global economic downturn. The other day, I read a novel called Prester John , by John Buchan, published in 1910. This story about a Zulu uprising in South Africa as experienced by a young Scottish immigrant is an entertaining read in the spirit of Rudyard Kipling or H.
  OReilly Radar - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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• How Would Walt Disney Market in 2009?
  
  For example, Snow White was a movie, a ride, a doll, a book, a dress, a television show, a cartoon, and a set of experiences which all were touchstones to the magic of it all. I am optimistic that this downturn will cause people to do more with less. Walt Disney, the man, was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and told them in sizzling new ways that shaped memorable experiences.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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• Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
  
  Just ask John Drummond, who started Unicycle.com after getting laid off from IBM during the last downturn. Between my starting this post and finishing it, Marc Boroditsky called to tell me he's about to book another million-dollar prepaid, three-year contract with another client who said he'd lost trust in the other companies he'd been considering. I just heard a story from a client that's hard to believe but true. In the worst economy we've seen in decades, Passlogix, a privately owned 100-person software development company, just received over a million dollars in prepaid
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 23, 2009
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• Buy the Book
  
  Despite the downturn, publishing in China is one sector that seems to be on an upward trajectory. ...Tags: The Chinese seem to be following that advice. Tags: Knowledge Toda
  Knowledge@Wharton - Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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• Should Work Make Us Happy?
  
  Many of us are just happy to have a job and be surviving the downturn. In his new book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work , de Botton interviews a range of workers, from rocket scientists to biscuit manufacturers to accountants to artists to find out what makes jobs fulfilling — or soul-destroying. Terkel, who called work "a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying," brilliantly chronicled the lives of ordinary 20th-century working Americans in his book Working . In these times of economic uncertainty and job insecurity, the question of whether work should make us happy seems an unnecessary self-indulgence.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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