Archive for the 'business' Category
Managing co-ops
So REI has a clever ad on the radio right now. It plays to the zeitgeist by mentioning that they’re a member co-op (not a greedy for-profit company). And then it ends with the bottom line: members get a refund at the end of the year.
There’s a line in the ad along the lines, “We [...]
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Tags: business, co-ops, governance, management, strategy
the revolution will not be televized… but it will be tweeted.
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Tags: aig, bonuses, resentment, revolution
A dollar saved…
Anyone else wishing they’d spent more and saved less?
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Tags: market, S&P, savings
So, the Politico has applied its power news formula to the role of business leaders in the Obama administration. As in, they have no role.
First, lets set the record straight for the boys over at the Politico. Black holes attract. If Obama’s cabinet was a black hole for CEO’s, then it would be sucking them out [...]
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Tags: business, government, leadership
I find this bit interesting from the LA Times interview with Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder:
Back in the day we thought, well, if we get to this many users or this level of relevancy in the mainstream, we’re going to have to add a bunch of features, and make this or that group of people happy… [...]
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Tags: evolution, social network, stupid network
Is growth relevant?
managers and shareholders value growth more than strategy research… and that’s a problem for researchers not practitioners
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Tags: growth, residual claimants, stakeholders, strategy, theory of the firm
If at first you don’t succeed…
after a spectacular meltdown
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Tags: hedge fund, investing, recession
Bankruptcies revisited…
struggling traditional manufacturing leading the way into reorganization and liquidation
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Tags: economy, recession, strategy
Bold recession-proofing
This ought to be a more common approach to surviving the downturn: decapitation. When Lulu saw the sharp downturn, rather than laying off across the board they cut top executives, including the president. The managers had been put in place to lay the groundwork for growth and (probably) a public offering. With markets tanking and [...]
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Tags: recession, strategy
2008 bankruptcies
Rob Salomon has a list of top bankruptcies in 2008. Here’s a graph of number by a few industry categories from Rob’s data.
Rob predicts the raw number of bankruptcies will rise sharply in 2009. How about the mix of industries? Will retail and real estate run the board again, or will consumer products and business [...]
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Tags: economy
