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April 30, 2007
I think there is a general acceptance in business today doing the same thing year after year is not going to work. If you need data to confirm it, here is results from Chris Zook's latest book Unstoppable: [W]e found that 153 of the top 500 companies in 1994 did not even survive the following decade intact. They either ended up in bankruptcy or were acquired and integrated into a larger company.
April 26, 2007
In a current Business 2. 0 article, "How the Wii is Creaming the Competition," John Gaudiosi discusses how Nintendo remade itself with its latest gaming system: the Wii. If you haven't heard of it, Wii is a relatively inexpensive, motion-controlled system that blends physical activity with the video game environment.
April 25, 2007
The Black Swan>>The Wall Street Journal | Shattering the Bell Curve Life isn't fair. Many of the most coveted spoils -- wealth, fame, links on the Web -- are concentrated among the few. If such a distribution doesn't sound like the familiar bell-shaped curve, you're right.
Did you see the WSJ's Weekend Journal this past Friday? Smack dab in the middle of the front floats a large-headed young employee with his nose to the sky. The article, "The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work.
April 24, 2007
Chris Zook is the head of Bain's Strategy Practice and the author of three books on growth. Michael Porter created the framework for how most think about strategy. Zook's work provide clues on how to improve your chance of success.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2. 0 by Sandy Carter. In this book, Carter shows how, by levering SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web 2.
April 23, 2007
The Black Swan >> New York Times | Possibly Maybe It concerns the occurrence of the improbable, the power of rare events and the author’s lament that “in spite of the empirical record we continue to project into the future as if we were good at it.
Damage Control >> Time Magazine | The Crisis Doctors These tough critics are the "trauma surgeons of public relations," as Dezenhall puts it--the people whom companies call in when lawsuits, recalls, boycotts, federal investigations or just plain bad luck hits. (tags: businessbooks public_relations) How To Read A Business Book by Adrian Madansky -- The University of Chicago Magazine: February 2001 All these books assert "truths" about different aspects of business. .
April 21, 2007
There are three books right now on the Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller list dealing with strengths development. Gallup hold a spot with their new StrengthsFinder 2. 0.
April 20, 2007
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