The expatriate manager is a declining species Friday, August 29th, 2008 Business Daily | No Comments »
“Executive expatriates are expensive, as many multinational firms have learned. Moving a manager to a factory or corporate office in Dubai, Russia, or India can be a costly experience after providing relocation dollars, tax equalization, and housing allowances. For that reason and others, Western and non-Western companies competing in emerging ...click here to read the full article.
Why I back Starbucks to bounce back Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Business Daily | No Comments »
“On July 1st (Starbucks), based in Seattle, said it would close a further 500 stores in America (in addition to the 100 closures it announced earlier this year) and reduce its workforce of roughly 172,000 by around 7%. A remarkable 70% of the stores due to close were opened after ...click here to read the full article.
Teams: Why 2+2 is not always 4 Friday, August 15th, 2008 Business Daily | No Comments »
“In the late 1920s, a German psychologist named Max Ringelmann compared the results of individual and group performance on a rope-pulling task. He expected that the group’s effort would be equal to the sum of the efforts of individuals within the group. For instance, three people puling together ...click here to read the full article.
The Ambani brothers are still snatching each other’s toys Friday, July 25th, 2008 Business Daily | No Comments »
“A bitter rivalry between two Indian billionaire brothers has scuttled negotiations to combine two of the developing world’s largest mobile-phone carriers. South Africa’s MTN Group Ltd. and India’s Reliance Communications Ltd. called off talks Friday over a potential multibillion-dollar deal that would have created a wireless giant. Behind ...click here to read the full article.
Multi-tasking can kill you, kill your career Friday, July 11th, 2008 Business Daily | 2 Comments »
“…In a 2005 Australian study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers interviewed, during a 27-month period, 456 hospitalized cell phone users who had each been involved in a crash. The scientists combed the drivers’ call records to see how cell phone use affected their driving. Whether they talked ...click here to read the full article.
Want to think better? Use your legs! Friday, June 13th, 2008 Business Daily | 2 Comments »
1. You learn 20% faster immediately after exercise than after sitting still. 2. If our ancestors sat still in the savanna for eight hours straight…they became somebody’s lunch. Our brains developed while we walked about 12 miles a day, seven days a week, for several million years. 3. The brain’s ...click here to read the full article.
Why financiers periodically set fire to the economy Friday, June 6th, 2008 Business Daily | No Comments »
“Twenty-five years ago, when most economists were extolling the virtues of financial deregulation and innovation, a maverick named Hyman P. Minsky maintained a more negative view of Wall Street; in fact he noted that bankers, traders, and other financiers periodically played the role of arsonists, setting the entire economy ablaze. ...click here to read the full article.