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Can You Be Too Positive?
While I have been critical of The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE THE FOUR KEY EMOTIONAL SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP by David R. Caruso and Peter Salovey, there was one concept in the book that I found compelling: namely the usefulness of negative emotions. What...
Tags: Positive Psychology, Optimists, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Chris Golis
Blog posts 2009-02-04

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India Inflation Woes May Continue
Gagan Sharma submits: Oil has touched a 3-month low and optimists have already passed the verdict that inflation has peaked. Credit rating agency Moody's said on Monday that inflation may have peaked in India, as is reflected by the latest moderation, even though Goldman Sachs raised its projection for the...
Tags: India
External links 2008-08-06
Year in review 2005.
When casting a backward glance at 2005, optimists might focus on the financial gifts to save the Detroit International Jazz Festival or revitalize Detroit's riverfront, or the massive mobilization for Super Bowl XL. Pessimists may dwell on the string When casting a backward glance at 2005,...
Tags: bankruptcy, company, Compuware Corp., financial, retail company, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., winery
Research articles 2006-01-02
500 channels awe advertisers. (future 500 cable TV channels) (Cable Advertising 2001) (Industry Overview)
The dawning of the 500-channel age has divided the advertising community into two camps: those who see the multi, multichannel world as a marketer's dream and those who see it as a threatening nightmare. The optimists are thrilled with the many op The...
Tags: advertisement, Discovery Communications Inc., advertiser, VoD, cable, cable television
Research articles 1993-04-19
Budget bummers ; Fiscal planning? That phrase is an oxymoron in 2002.
Finance officers are burning erasers to nubs as they draw up budgets and business plans for 2002. Optimists who had been charting growth trajectories now are trimming everything from payroll to capital investment plans to consulting outlays, becau Finance officers are burning erasers...
Tags: bank, BORGWARNER INC., company, consulting, finance, Sept. 11, technology
Research articles 2001-11-05
Will market brighten for Morningstar IPO?(News)
Byline: ALBY GALLUN Optimists predict the languishing market for initial public offerings will bounce back after Labor Day, when Wall Street power brokers return from the Hamptons. Morningstar Inc. had better hope so. Nearly four months after an Byline: ALBY GALLUN...
Tags: IPO, Morningstar Inc., stock
Research articles 2004-08-23
APC BROADENING AIM AFTER SPI TALKS FAIL.
WASHINGTON -- Optimists hoped that the end of contentious merger talks between the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. and the American Plastics Council would let the industry's two largest trade groups return to normal. Such optimism appears mi WASHINGTON -- Optimists hoped...
Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., AOL Instant Messenger
Research articles 1999-03-01
Answering the TiVo challenge: television leaders and marketers debate the future of "new media" advertising.(Technology Spotlight)(TiVo Inc.'s advertising of its Digital video recorders)
Pessimists called it doomsday for the 30-second TV commercial; networks chuckled. Optimists furrowed their brows and pondered the advantage, and everyone on the sideline knew, good or bad, everything about spot advertising was about to change. Pessimists called it doomsday for the 30-second...
Tags: advertisement, digital video, digital video recorder, leader, recorder, TiVo Inc., TV, video recorder
Research articles 2006-02-01
The Latest from Roubini: Long on Words, Short on Facts
Denis Ouellet submits: It is déjà vu all over again. We have already seen this Groundhog Day movie at least six times over and over again in the last year or so: the market starts to rally – this time around about 8% in a week - and the chorus...
Tags: US Market, Denis Ouellet
External links 2009-03-16
5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
Tags: Bank, Recovery, Housing Market, MoneyWatch, Mortgages, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Health Care, Home Sales, Unemployment, Interest Rates, Inflation, Ben Bernanke, PPIP, Citibank, Dan Colarusso
Articles 2009-07-08
Buffett and Gates at Columbia ? The Markets Have Bottomed!
Chuck Carnevale submits:Warren Buffett told an audience of cheering Columbia University students last night that the worst of the financial global crisis is over. Moreover, he also said that stocks have bottomed out. His advice was not to pass on something attractive today. He was joined by Bill Gates, who...
Tags: Software, Chuck Carnevale, Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-11-13
Analyzing Engineering Projects Using Real Options -- Intelligent Investments In The Face Of Uncertainty
Boeing performs extensive financial modeling, a requirement given the technical complexity and the long life cycle of our products. One of the techniques we use is called ""Real Options,"" an advanced financial modeling technique that extends standard net present value NPV to evaluate risk-adjusted return on investment and cost-versus-risk...
Tags: Technique, Financial, Investment, Boeing Co., Crystal Ball, Productivity, Research & Development, Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2003-01-01
The B2B Exchange Myth
It has often been discussed that why e-procurement is not what it was cracked up to be. When the dot com bubble burst, and business-to-consumer companies lay vanquished in their own blood, optimists claimed that the big winner would be the business-to-business sector. The Internet might have failed as a...
Tags: Procurement Management, CFO Publishing Corp., Supplier, Purchasing & Procurement, B2B, Channel Management, Internet, Business Operations, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing
White papers 2001-03-20
UK Film, Television and Video: Overview 2002
This paper gives information about Film Production and the film industry. Depending on your point of view, it is easy to give two interpretations on the current state of film, television and interactive multi-media in Britain. The optimists are thrilled by the boom in the British film industry and look...
Tags: British Film Institute, Video, Optimist, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
White papers
Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles
This report models the relationship between asset float tradeable shares and speculative bubbles. Investors trade a stock with limited float because of insider lock-ups. They have heterogeneous beliefs due to overconfidence and face short-sales constraints. A bubble arises as price overweighs optimists' beliefs and investors anticipate the option to resell...
Tags: Asset, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Investor, Bubble, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2005-05-01
Forecasting Manufacturing Output Growth Using Firm-Level Survey Data
Traditionally forecasts of macroeconomic aggregates are extracted from prospective qualitative survey data by relating official data on the aggregate to both the proportion of survey respondents who are "Optimists" and the proportion who are "Pessimists". But there is no reason to focus on these proportions to the exclusion of other...
Tags: Survey, Proportion, Forecasting, University Of Warwick, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2005-01-01
Care and Feeding of Contract Lawyers
Most sales pros hate lawyers... especially when they insert themselves into negotiations after there's been a verbal agreement. You have two choices: either let your local shysters throw wrenches into the wheels of your commerce, or learn to deal more effectively with the breed. Here are...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Lawyer
Blog posts 2008-01-30
What Was Last Quarter's GDP and Inflation Rate?
Tim Iacono submits: Yesterday's report on U.S. economic growth had something for everybody. For the optimists, it was surging exports and a government stimulus induced boost to personal spending that pushed second quarter annualized real growth to 1.9 percent. For the pessimists, it was the massive downward revisions...
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-08-01
Internet promises - Brookings Institution report - Brief Article
The prospect of a new economy has been one of the great opinion generators of the times. Optimists, according to Robert E. Litan and Alice M. Rivlin's Brookings Institution conference report The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead, are of the opinion that the Internet will enhance productivity and...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Internet
Research articles 2001-01-01
O'Neill's Folly: the IMF's recent Argentina bailout is good news for European bankers, bad news for U.S. policy, and a disaster for the Argentinean private sector - Paul O'Neill
The IMF's new $8 billion bailout makes Argentina's economic problems worse, not better. Nor does the bailout "buy time" for Argentina, as some optimists claim. It buys time only for some of Argentina's major foreign creditors.
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2001-09-01
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