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- Living Simply to Simply Live
- A psychologist and author argues that the recession and the simplified lifestyle that comes with it could actually reduce your stress levels and make you happier. Barry Schwartz's ideas about the U.S. culture of consumption are about to be put to the test…If Barry Schwartz is right, then the recession...
- Articles 2009-03-09
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- Does More Choice Equal More Profits?
- Here at the BNET Intercom we've posted several times about the increasing tendency of marketers to target a multitude of products to specific market niches rather than aiming for broad appeal (among those posts is today's look at Nike's new shoes for Native Americans.) The result of all this niche...
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Sarah Palin's Paradox for Working Moms
- Sarah Palin's Paradox for Working MomsRE: Sarah Palin's Paradox for Working MomsThe quote "raising children is a family affair", it absolutely right. Children need a mother, nuturing soft gentle, someone who will take the care to apply a bandaid in need... however children, in as much as a mother, need...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- A party of choice
- Vicenti, Carey N. Indian Country Today Lakota Times 09-18-2002 Voting in the United States for Indian people is a paradox. No other right in the American legal system is more symbolic of a Native person's "inclusion" into the political body of the...
- Research articles 2002-09-18
- Tropicana's Trouble: Why Loyal Customers Hate Change
- The kerfuffle over Tropicana's recently yanked new design for its orange juice carton is just another reason why marketers have a love-hate relationship with the Internet and social media. For years, Tropicana's products have pictured a beautiful orange punctured by a straw. What could be fresher? Still,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- B-School Profs on Microdecisions, Redefining Workspace and the Icarus Paradox
- The more things change, the more they stay the same -- Technology management professor Andrew Hargadon of UC Davis Graduate School of Management wrote about lies and statistics last week, calling statistics the weapon of choice these days in everything from science to stimulus plans. On the bright side, the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Wide choice but no depth to US media: survey
- NEW YORK AFP — Having more choice about how to receive less information is the "new paradox of journalism," according to an annual survey on the state of the US news media. The review, released at the weekend by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said dire predictions of...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- Congress Is Foiling Americans' Desire for REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE
- Despite the majority's wishes, legislators are curbing access to services that prevent unintended pregnancy, as well as restricting abortion. An enduring paradox of American democracy is the chasm that so often separates what the public wants from what its leaders deliver. For instance, take Congress. Even a political novice...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- 5 Reasons We Stink at Setting Goals
- You've heard it a million times: you have to set goals to get anywhere in life, goals help you stay focused, goals are important, blah blah blah. I've even spouted that stuff at you by trying to tell you how to set better goals and how to improve your focus...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- A Contrarian View on Product Focus: Do More, Not Less
- An ascendant philosophy in the area of product development and marketing goes like this: focus on a few products but do them better than anyone else; fire your least profitable customers and shower love on the money makers; choose carefully distribution partners who will add value rather than...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- The CEO's New Rules for Driving Strategic Change
- Most of us have lived long enough corporate lives to recognize this scenario. CEO announces sweeping strategy shift for company. Managers and employees buy in enthusiastically -- everyone is on board! And the result is... Nothing. Change doesn't take hold....
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Understanding the Vacation Paradox
- Parkinson's Law states that your workload will expand to whatever time you allocate for its completion. Thus, when you're willing to work late or to check on work stuff from your PDA at home, you're usually not really getting more done; instead, you're just being more wasteful with your time. That's...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Mickos letter to EU: Approve Oracle-Sun deal
- Mårten MickosAs the European Commission continues to evaluate the potentially deleterious effects of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems and its open-source MySQL database, concern is rising that delay will harm MySQL without helping competition.One who shares this concern is former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos. On Thursday, Mickos sent a...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Financing Technology On The Basis Of Intellectual Property
- Technology drives economic growth, yet it is chronically underfinanced. How can that paradox be explained? Intellectual Property IP is essential to developing technology markets. It guarantees private property over an innovation. However borrowers, be they research centers or companies often lack the necessary knowledge about IP protection and management. Investors...
- White papers 2005-03-22
- In the Wrong Job | BTalk Australia
- (19min 06) Have you ever wondered whether you’re in the right job? Did you get where you are today by chance, without really planning your career? Russell Johnson, the Managing Director of EPR International, says it's not uncommon. Infact the vast majority of people are in the wrong job. The...
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- The Big Shift: Why U.S. Companies are Falling Behind
- American companies became bigger and more efficient over the last few decades. And why not? It was a formula that made the United States the preeminent economic force on the planet. Problem was, the ingredients for success in an increasingly global economy were changing. Size and efficiency...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
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