Two unorthodox business approaches that work

Having worked in a number of professional settings, I have seen two non-orthodox approaches do good things for the companies that practice them. One is cultivating loyalty to the company through direct personal engagement between the boss and the workers. The other is...

Jobs focus is for simple minded

Get real If you were to start up a new business, the first thing that I would advise is to 1) identify prospective customer needs, 2) qualify customers as to their means to procure solutions, 3) assess competition...

Romney Business Background

At least he has a business backgroud  Jon Huntsman may claim that being the CEO of his family trust is a business. Well, it is of sort, but not what I have in mind as qualification for president. Mitt Romney...

‘Reverse Bonus Checks’ Drain Wall Street Bank Accounts

New York -- The global economic crisis has finally caught up with Wall Street insiders who triggered it. They are discovering that their traditional year-end compensation is lowering the balance on their bank...

"I have a dream" Speech: Revised for Contemporary Situation

In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. That was 12 years before my birth, and much has changed since then. The issues that are at work now are issues that are very different from the issues that were at work back then. This is my take on the...

“New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone.”

A curious story out of the State of Georgia, USA involves a west Georgia business owner stirring up a controversy with signs he posted on his company’s trucks, for all to see as the trucks roll up and down roads, highways and interstates: “New Company Policy: We are...

Toyota create 1,500 jobs at the firm's UK Derbyshire factory.

Toyota said it would be investing more than £100m at Burnaston to make it the sole European centre for making its next hatchback. Prime Minister David Cameron, who visited the factory on Thursday, said it was...

UK Video games chain warns of loss as fear sweeps the high street

Although gamers queued up last week to get their hands on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Game chief executive Ian Shepherd said the success of a handful of titles was not enough to counter a dramatic slump in...

Eurozone Gloom Deepens As UK Recession Looms

UK economic outlook worse for seventh month in a row, says OECD.... The West's leading economic thinktank, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), says a recession is looming and backs...

Doing Business in Smaller Cities

This is the first article of a new series on business growth. In this series which I have titled “Why start from neutral, when you can start from an advantage” I will be highlighting what's great about running and starting up a business, "Of course, from an...

Bangkok Traffic

Image of the day: Bangkok traffic jam (Thailand)Source: http://www.schahryar.com/photoblog/481

NGOs: The Parasitic Altruists

Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics,...

Despite a Slowly Recovering Economy, Commercial Real Estate is Ex

Want to start a business in New York or Washington, D.C.? Now is the time according to foreign investors, who are leading the way and pouring billions into the commercial market.Anyone looking to invest in...

Harry Potter Fan? Move Into Author Jk Rowling's Home!

With the recent release of the final movie of the Harry Potter series, The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Harry Potter fanatics may be interested in learning that the childhood home of the incredible author of...

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