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The media should instead focus on speculators vs. value creators. Go to Source

Chris Liddell joins General Motors as vice chairman and chief financial officer. He’ll start at GM in the new year. Go to Source

Despite the down economy, people are still donating to nonprofits and other charities. Go to Source

More than 45,000 businesses closed their doors for good in 2009 - including some that survived for longer than a century. Here are 6 historic companies that vanished. Go to Source

The NPD Group reports cost-conscious businesses began purchasing technology goods such as desktops, servers and printers in greater volume in December, representing the first and only year-over-year revenue gain in 2009. - Market research company The NPD Groups Reseller Tracking Service announced U.S. sales through commercial resellers were up seven percent in December 2009 reaching [...]

What becomes of the printed word? What’s the fate of companies that produce periodicals and books? Here’s what 10 media and tech luminaries think. Go to Source

The Age of Tablets will give print media one last bite at the apple - and publishing companies that are able to make the transition could one day thrive again. Go to Source

China is likely to soon overtake Japan to become the world’s second largest economy, a milestone that will only fuel growing fears about the economic might of the world’s largest country. Go to Source

Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan said the government will start debate on overhauling the sales tax next month, indicating it may consider increasing the 5 percent levy to help repair the country’s finances. Go to Source

The first two days of Winter Olympics coverage in Vancouver was watched by about 97 million people in the U.S., the most since 1994 when interest in the Lillehammer Games was boosted by an off-ice incident involving U.S. figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. Go to Source

 I am not an economist. However, for the last 20 or so years, my passion has been in management and technology, and along the way, I have written over a thousand articles and talks on making management and technology more understandable to everyone.  Over the last few months, I have heard a [...]

I stumbled on a great typo last night. "Staff in the lobby were wondering around..." Wandering around is an aimless waste of time. Wondering around, though, that sounds useful. Wondering why this product is the way it is, wondering how...

Since Linchpin was published six weeks ago, I've gotten some terrific email. Most of it is about individuals who used the ideas in the book to instigate a process of self-reinvention or validation. Some of the best mail, though, has...

...is not the same as obeying the list. Do you make the list you check off, follow and work on every day? When does it get made? Who approves it? Do you identify tasks or perform them? If you had...

© jsmjrA number of companies are now moving on to exchange hosting. It is generally offered by web and application hosting providers. Exchange hosting enables your company to access data from anywhere and anytime of the day. It helps in the management of task in an efficient manner. It even brings down overhead costs associated with your business. It is a simple program which enables you to keep in touch with your employees and enables you to increase your profits. Information can be ...

When the platform changes, the leaders change. Wordperfect had a virtual monopoly on word processing in big firms that used DOS. Then Windows arrived and the folks at Wordperfect didn't feel the need to hurry in porting themselves to the...

© Paul Mannix Something I have noticed is hard for a lot of entrepreneurs is also something that seems critical to success: focus. By nature, most entrepreneurs have busy minds, thinking clever and profitable thoughts at a million miles an hour down a hundred diverging highways. It can be hard for them to drill down on any one of those thoughts long enough to make it happen, or with a sufficient degree of attention to execute on it well. Enter Zen. In today's ultra-connected, ... ... [read more]

Old time factories had a linear layout, because there was just one steam engine driving one drive shaft. Every machine in the shop had to line up under the shaft (connected by a pulley) in order to get power. That...

Branding is extremely important as it sets your product and services apart from your competition and creates a lasting impression on the mind of the prospect. This marketing technique is intended to increase the perceived value to the customer and enhance brand equity. Now the tricky question comes as to when should a company go for brand management? Besides product and company stability, one should also believe in their hindsight while going for the branding exercise. A new company should... [read more]

This is deceptive. You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it's a self-defeating goal. You can't do it. No, but you might rock five...

Carnegie apparently said, "Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory." Is there a...

Readers have told me that they enjoy my off-the-wall book lists. Here's another. Science fiction, Tom Peters, Krista Tippett and even a book for touring musicians. Enjoy them. And don't forget it's okay to share books. They don't wear out.

People are drawn to existing competitions like moths to a flame. It's precisely the wrong way to succeed. Lots of journalists take significant detours in their careers and their writing in order to win a Pulitzer. Maybe not to actually...

I posted this eight years ago (!) but a reader asked for an encore. ...are we stuck in High School? I had two brushes with higher education this week. The first was at a speech I gave in New York....

© jnyemb How do you save money when you open a new office? Among the first temptations is to open a home office. I'm not suggesting that that's a bad idea, but keeping mind that a home office increases the chance that you will get audited by the IRS. The most obvious way to keep the cost of a new office down is to plan well and be frugal. I've heard of savings plans that stretch out to cover everything for low cost car ...