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As you know, the U.S. financial markets are in a tailspin as a result of the failure or potential failure of numerous investment banks. As of this writing, congressional leaders have worked out a $700 billion plan with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to help save the banks–and the economy. Congress will vote on the measure [...]
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The other day I posted stats published in the latest FastCompany indicating that a majority of employees change jobs because of bad bosses, not necessarily bad companies. While discussing this with a colleague, he wondered if employees would remain at bad/mediocre organizations if they had good bosses. Interesting twist.
What do you think?
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The latest issue of BusinessWeek has a small feature on marketer Seth Godin. I’m a fan of his books and read his blog entries daily.
If you’re not familiar with Seth, try the article as a start and then subscribe to the blog. If you’re a really rabid fan, you’ll probably want the action figure. I’m hoping [...]
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October 16 is National Boss’ Day so don’t forget a card. Some of us have very good bosses–I count myself among the fortunate/blessed. Many, however, don’t. The October 2008 issue of FastCompany cites a 2008 Yahoo survey, indicating:
43% of Americans don’t like their bosses’ management styles, while 55% agree that “people don’t leave companies, they [...]
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From a guest post by Tim Clark at Get Rich Slowly:
…entrepreneurship is about you helping other people to achieve their goals.
This is obvious when you think about it. Business is all about satisfying customers, right? Well, to satisfy customers, you need to help them save money, solve annoying problems, experience more satisfaction or pleasure, or earn a [...]
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While reading The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, I kept thinking of two other books on success I’d read recently:
Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky, and Rich by Richard St. John
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Jim Collins took an empirical look at organizations to see what they did to become successful while Richard St. John conducted hundreds of interviews [...]
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Last week I wrote about the DIY Bunko Brunch that we recently hosted at LCC. Turns out ours was the first one–who knew?
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After reading Dan Pink’s remarkable little book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko last spring, I began to share its ideas with my students (business administration majors at Lincoln Christian College). I’d shared the book with a colleague or two as well and enjoyed some interesting discussion over it.
So when Dan Pink offered to send out [...]
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Slideshare.net ran a contest for user-submitted “world’s best presentations.” Here are the top three presentations. Notice that none use PowerPoint templates or default fonts or bullet points. All use full-bleed images (i.e., full screen) and just enough text to tell the story. (Hat tip to Guy Kawasaki)
THIRSTView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)
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Like everyone else, I saw John McCain’s selection of Alaska gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate as coming out of left field. Since the mainstream media (MSM) had no clue about Palin, they’ve been scrambling. And some of the reporting has been inaccurate and unabashedly biased.
The insightful folks at GetReligion, however, have done their duty faithfully [...]
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