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Why Leadership Development in Asia Is Better Than in Europe
with my last post , I'm going to dive deeper into the Top Companies for Leaders research that my firm, The RBL Group , along with Hewitt, publishes in Fortune magazine every two years.
The need for Latin American leaders to help companies rebound from the global downturn and drive sustained growth is among the top issues for the region. A shift in leadership development has occurred. While it used to be that American and European companies had cornered the market on developing the leaders of tomorrow, our latest round of research shows that Europe is now second to organizations
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 8, 2010
Buy Now – DRAM Pricing On The Rise
No quality DDR2 is being blown out right now, as prices are within 10-15% of DDR3. A story from ITWire , a magazine from the land down under, shows that the problem will be world wide, DRAM is going up, so the time to buy is now - As the world economy picks up and a slew of new gadgets come onto the scene, industry soothsayers are predicting a strong upswing in DRAM sales. billion in revenue in the fourth quarter. “iSuppli believes that the DRAM market’s strong performance in the fourth quarter will not presage a downturn, such as what occurred when the Internet
Lockergnome Blog Network
- Sunday, February 21, 2010
Profits Are "Green," Too!
In the months that followed An Inconvenient Truth, magazines rushed out their "Green Editions," clean tech stocks and green funds surged, and Fortune 500 companies desperately looked for ways to enhance and publicize their green credentials. Just as the dot-com craze gave way to business fundamentals when the bubble burst in 2000, green movement irrationality has ended with the economic downturn of the past 18 months. This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. Hayden is the founder of GreenPrint and ProgressiveRX and will be writing about green business strategies .
Fast Company
- Thursday, January 21, 2010
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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. This stimulates their creativity, produces innovations 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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AOL Launches Online “News Magazine” PoliticsDaily
Consumers are more frequently looking online news for political news, as we saw in the past presidential elections and during the current downturn in the economy. Moe maintains that PoliticsDaily’s long-form magazine content will differentiate the site from The Politico and other real-time focused news sites.
But if PoliticsDaily is supposed to be an online new magazine, why isn’t AOL’s sister AOL is adding a twist to old-fashioned political journalism with the launch of its new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com. The site, which will
TechCrunch
- Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Don’t Count JPG Magazine Out Just Yet, Sale May Close Next Week
When 8020 Media, the publisher of JPG Magazine, announced its shutdown on January 1, CEO Mitchell Fox told friends via email that they just couldn’t turn the corner on revenue in the down economy, despite being close to profitable before the downturn.
JPG Magazine was an attempt to create a photography magazine that relied on its readers for its content and included them in the editing process. In a blog post, the company said they unsuccessfully sought out buyers and investors to keep the company alive. But the attention the site received after the
TechCrunch
- Saturday, January 3, 2009
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Warning: brain underload
Rather oddly, a recent article from New Yorker Magazine followed exactly the pattern (no relevant studies, email damages IQ gaff), but came to the opposite conclusion.
Have you been affected by the economic downturn? The Times has a long and tiresome article about how the 'digital overload' is affecting our brains which is only notable for one thing, it mentions not a single study on how digital technology affects the brain.
Imagine that.
Mind Hacks
- Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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A Manifesto for Leaders: Time to Summon Your "Animal Spirits"
Economic downturns are as much about psychology as about GNP, as much about withering confidence as about shrinking employment. Fortune magazine in February 1930, just months after the Great Crash. launched the frivolous People magazine in March 1974, into the teeth of the worst media recession since the Depression. Warning: This is my first post of 2009, so please excuse the length.
You know things are dire when one of the country's most influential columnists devotes several articles ( and a new book ) to parallels between what's happening now and the Great Depression.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, January 8, 2009
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Tim Armstrong Prepares AOL For a Fragmenting Web
We’ve called this the “Toyota strategy” because it consists of creating standalone online media properties which appeal to niche audiences much like magazines used to do in the world of print media.
On the advertising front, he thinks AOL jumped into the ad network game at the wrong time right as the economic downturn hit. Hence, The days of the Web portal are long gone. Everyone knows this, especially the people who run the largest destination sites on the Web.
TechCrunch
- Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Recession Sales Strategy: Tell Them Something They Don't Know
CFO magazine reports that, according to its most recent Global Business Outlook survey with Duke University, 65 percent of CFOs don't expect economic recovery to commence within a year. And what do you think gets cut in a downturn? In HBR's March 2009 issue they provide a game plan for going beyond "consultative" selling and instead confronting customers with deeply challenging ideas about their Having any trouble selling to business customers these days? Join the club.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, March 13, 2009
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50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product
A good place to start to make sure you're using the latest user experience ideas and trends is Smashing Magazine's 2009 Web Design survey . Taking into account the current economic downturn and making sure you're addressing how you offering can help people and businesses in the current business climate will also help right now. I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0
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Predictions for 2009
downturn is the overwhelming factor coloring their forecasts, they do
see You can find the 30 or so predictions (including my own) in the current edition of eLearn magazine: Predictions for 2009
...Tags: Lisa Neal Gualtieri has again this year gathered predictions on what lies ahead for the e-learning community.
She She summarises the results as follows: "While our colleagues here unanimously agree the global economic
downturn
Jane Hart - Pick of the Day
- Saturday, January 10, 2009
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Get Out of the Training Business
Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009
If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm.
The dawn of a new age
What we are experiencing today is fundamental. The industrial
Informal Learning
- Saturday, January 31, 2009
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