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Your Tech Is on Fire: Porn Flirts With the 3-D TV Revolution
Porn also suffered during the recent downturn, which, in turn, becomes another factor driving porn to evolve. With that information on board, despite any moral squeamishness you have on the matter, it seems pornography is about to take an even more public role in pushing technology (and possibly the economy) forwards. [Via One of the biggest categories at CES last week was 3-D tech in TVs and computer monitors. And with news from the Adult Entertainment show, running simultaneously in Las Vegas, here's a fun question: Will porn drive 3-D's success?
Fast Company - Monday, January 11, 2010
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Overpromoted and Over His Head
The company had suffered in the downturn; recouping those losses had to be its top priority. "No, He already had more things on his plate than he could handle: meeting quarterly budget numbers, setting strategic goals for the next five years, bolstering employee morale after the death of their CEO, and now dealing with bad press. It couldn't be over the top, but recognizing the dedication of the firm's workforce, especially in tough economic times, might boost morale. Our fictional protagonist, Dan Sestak, has had a charmed career path at packaged-foods giant NutriSelect. But
HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Get Lean on Energy Costs, Not People
wish things were different today than in Dunlop's time, but when this downturn began, companies raced to cut people ahead of the coming decline in sales and profits. Colvin included brand equity costs , leadership costs, Wall Street costs, rehiring costs, and my personal favorite, morale costs. So undermining morale may not be a great idea right now. This may be hard for anyone below 40 to fathom, but companies didn't always fire people to save money. IBM was famous for "full-time employment," but then its first layoffs in the early 90s changed the game forever.
HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 18, 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. Tags: Managing yourself Morale Personal effectivenes In these times of economic uncertainty and job insecurity, the question of whether work should make us happy seems an unnecessary self-indulgence. And yet happiness has been getting a lot of air-time lately — from the Guardian , the Atlantic , and Slate , just to name a few.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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  • Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction
    A few weeks ago, the folks at the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab invited me to help kick off their first event of 2009 - "The Upside of the Downturn ". Wall St's moral hazard has a mirror image. . Both are flip sides of the same coin of moral hazard. Unfortunately, I was already booked to speak at NESTA's Webank . Since the VLab's events are awesome, here and in a related post are the comments I can't give in person - hopefully, they can spark some discussion both here and at the event.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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  • 6 Networking Mistakes And How to Avoid Them
    Achievements : You held on to key accounts, resolved the conflict, rebuilt team morale and increased the visibility and positive reputation of the department. you are going to an event, remember that there will be many others in the same situation — especially in a downturn — and that the purpose of the event is to circulate among people. If you've been laid off in recent months, you're in excellent company. Plenty of qualified and experienced managers are now having to develop strategies to find their next job . But
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, April 23, 2009
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  • Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction
    A few weeks ago, the folks at the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab invited me to help kick off their first event of 2009 - "The Upside of the Downturn ". Wall St's moral hazard has a mirror image. . Both are flip sides of the same coin of moral hazard. Unfortunately, I was already booked to speak at NESTA's Webank . Since the VLab's events are awesome, here and in a related post are the comments I can't give in person - hopefully, they can spark some discussion both here and at the event.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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  • Seven Communication Mistakes Managers Make
    You promise your team a 7% raise, but then the board, concerned about the downturn, caps raises at 3%. As a result, he changed his internal communication strategy to emphasize vision once more, and saw morale soar. 1. Making controversial announcements without doing groundwork first Any Any controversial decision can engender rumors, anxiety, and
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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  • Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times
    These disruptions can have a nasty impact on employee morale and commitment. It's a great time to engage employee-owners in coming up with ideas to deal with the downturn. This week's question for Ask the Coach: Keeping Keeping employees' committed and motivated during tough economic times seems like a tall task, especially after downsizing or program cutbacks.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, April 17, 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. Here's Keynes: "A large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Re/Max, now a major force in residential real estate, began in 1973, just as the housing market was entering a severe downturn...Bill 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
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, January 8, 2009
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  • Take Eco-Efficiency to a Higher Level
    A silver lining of the economic downturn is that efficiency has moved to the top of the business agenda. Involve employees: Efficiency is not only good for the bottom line and the planet, it's good for employee morale. The recently enacted U.S. stimulus package includes more than $11 billion in funding for energy efficiency funding that will hopefully achieve the trifecta of saving energy, money, and jobs.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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  • Get Lean on Energy Costs, Not People
    wish things were different today than in Dunlop's time, but when this downturn began, companies raced to cut people ahead of the coming decline in sales and profits. Colvin included brand equity costs , leadership costs, Wall Street costs, rehiring costs, and my personal favorite, morale costs. So undermining morale may not be a great idea right now. This may be hard for anyone below 40 to fathom, but companies didn't always fire people to save money. IBM was famous for "full-time employment," but then its first layoffs in the early 90s changed the game forever.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 18, 2009
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  • The Layoff
    They hurt morale and customer service. Nor do they consider how long the savings from job cuts will take to kick in, the costs to hire and train people once business picks up, or the damage to morale and productivity. Those costs are often much higher than people imagine, which explains why a Bain & Company study of layoffs during the 2001 downturn found that firms that cut the fewest employees performed better than their com-petitors did. "Why aren't layoffs taught as a subject at business school?" Robin Astrigo asked himself. "Boards
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 19, 2009
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