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September 11, 2015
Business Books for your Kindle for $0.99
For those who are looking for new kindle books on business. Following books are priced only $0.99: The MBA Book: TOP Business School MBA in a Book Cool Boss: The Art of Leadership in the 21st Century MBA 2.0: Things You Won’t Learn in Business School Go Nuts: The Art of Creativity and Innovation Kill […]
September 10, 2015
Ernst & Young business strategy: the power of individual talent
It makes sense that EY knows how to run a successful and happy workplace; that is one of the services that they provide to corporations in any of the 140 countries where they maintain more than 700 active offices. They have a trained team of specialists that can survey your employee productivity, corporate spending, investment […]
Volcker ruling, the sky didn’t fall down
The recent fears that seemed to be fuelled by a panicking media have been alleviated with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs share prices rising overnight. The ‘impending doom’ never seemed to crystallise, with some even predicting the Volcker Rule could have had a worldwide affect. The rule is listed as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank […]
Hypertargetting in advertising
Advertising is one area in which the changes happening will be so vast as to seem almost scary. A crop of innovative advertising startups are developing techniques and technologies to find and subdivide demographics to practically sub-molecular levels of specificity. To properly take advantage of this new wealth and breadth of customer data, business owners […]
Keep in mind the value of your product
Think about the first dollar your business ever earned from a customer. That money came in exchange for a product or service you provided that had tangible value to that customer. The larger your business grows, the easier it can be to forget that your viability is hinged on the value you create. Once you […]
Top 5 bold startups in 2013
Looking back at 2013 with a consumer tech eye, the term ‘start-up’ has been fervently present on the business scene and on the aspirational graphic. However, when it comes to understanding precisely what meaning this term carries, people might realize a lack of a universally accepted significance. It’s the point at which various factors and […]
What You Can Learn from Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
Today she is the CEO of PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest drink companies, but when Indra Nooyi was born in Madras (now Chennai) in 1955, she had no inkling that one day she would become a key player in the American corporate world. Nooyi’s father was a bank official and her grandfather was a […]
September 9, 2015
The rise of networked management
It can be hard to objectively appraise how different the nature of daily human interaction has become due to the rise of social media and social networks. We now have measurably more contact with other human beings than we’ve ever had before. Not only that, but our social networks have infiltrated every aspect of our […]
Hiring creative people
While education credentials still hold a lot of weight in the business world, life experience and personal history are becoming more important every year. The suit-and-tie professionalism of the past is not as relevant to the functioning of modern business, because there truly is only so much a person can learn in school. Internships, a […]
Benefits of being an early riser
Are you a morning person? If not, maybe you should consider becoming one. Over the past few years a number of studies have indicated that early risers are more productive and actually more successful in life than those who get up later. A Texas University study in 2008 showed that students who self-identified as “morning […]
