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401(k) Mistakes to Avoid
You?re counting on your 401k to provide a cushy retirement. Or at least food, shelter, and a broadband connection. But many investors undermine their savings plans without even knowing it. We?ve compiled a list of the most common mistakes, and explained how to avoid them. Here are the...
Tags: 401(k) Plan, Stock, Money, MoneyWatch, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Retirement, Retirement Plan, 403(b), Gary Busch, VTHRX, Chris Long, Cheryl Krueger, BrightScope, Target Date Retirement Fund, Target Date Fund, David Lamp, Sink or Swim, Sink-Swim.com, Asset Allocation, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Kate Ashford
Articles 2009-10-26

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Sink or Swim Business
Sink or Swim BusinessRE: Sink or Swim BusinessSink has the makings of a world-class fool. His complete and utter lack of understanding of management and its role is incredibly obvious. I can only assumme one of two things: either he is incredibly crafty and throwing a controversial idea...
Tags: Sink-or-Swim Business
Discussion threads 2008-04-24
Sink or Swim Business
To boost your organization, fire all the managers. That's one aspect of Ralph Sink's views on management. He's interviewed by strategy+business titled Business Success from the Bottom Up registration required. Sink is a proponent of high-performance systems, which the magazine describes thusly: ...
Tags: High-performance, Wine, Sink, Leadership, Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-04-22
Sink or Swim
Sink or Swim By Milo Sindell and Thuy Sindell (Adams Media, April 2006, $14.95) The authors, described as 30-something thought leaders in the field of career development, bring an interesting approach to the topic of being a new employee. They point out the traps to avoid -and more importantly-the positive...
Tags: Adams Media
Research articles 2006-04-01
Sink and Swim.(Product Trend Report-Feature)
Sink and Swim By John Filippelli Bath sinks, faucets and lavs are jazzing up the bath with a touch of style, grace -- and green. Beauty and functionality make an ideal team in many areas, but ...
Tags: Kohler Co.
Research articles 2008-12-04
Culture club: can your culture adapt to a changing market? That question is fast becoming a do-or-die reality
We've all heard the cliches: "publish or perish", "sink or swim", "eat or be eaten" and others too numerous to mention. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No matter the industry origin, each was meant to sound an alarm in clear and unmistakable terms. And, those who chose to...
Tags: Branding, Leadership, Manufacturing, MARKETING, processor, SALES, Tyson Foods Inc.
Research articles 2004-06-01
It's time to sink or swim for cardboard regatta crews.(Neighbor)
Byline: Harry Hitzeman Daily Herald Staff Writer There's a common saying at the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta in Glen Ellyn: "It's the only time you can legally swim in Lake Ellyn." After all, one of the key honors is the Titanic Award,...
Tags: honor, Southern Illinois University
Research articles 2001-06-29
NEWS : Sink or swim for BSkyB as armbands come off
IT WILL be a hairy moment for BSkyB and its main adviser, Goldman Sachs , when the stock market re-opens tomorrow morning. Although BSkyB floated a full month ago, Goldman has been supporting its share price ever since. Only now are the inflatable armbands being removed, and the company left...
Tags: British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Saatchi & Saatchi
Research articles 1995-01-08
Crisis Management: Folding Or Plotting
Sink or swim. Stick it out or fold up the tent. If only keeping your clients and customers talking about you was as easy as the silly yet effective Snickers Snacklish campaign. There are two options in this market, keep your business working while repositioning it or shut down to...
Tags: Entrepreneurial, American Express Co., Entrepreneurship, Crisis Management, Management
White papers 2009-07-07
Selling Overseas: Your Credit Management Technique Can Determine Whether You Sink or Swim
In recent years, the international marketplace has become increasingly competitive as more and more companies worldwide are finding it necessary to "go global" in order to maintain profitability and growth. Selling overseas presents an ever-growing challenge to credit/export managers who increasingly have to contend with diverse cultures, conventions, laws and...
Tags: Credit Management, ABC Inc., Decision
White papers 2000-01-01
Sink or swim? Every year, hundreds of toddlers drown. But, surprisingly, the American Academy of Pediatrics warns parents against swimming lessons for youngsters. Does its argument hold water?
Michelle Feczko calls them "three tragic seconds," the moment toddlers slip out of parents' sight at a pool or waterpark, a moment that will haunt them forever. As childhood injury prevention coordinator for Children's Hospital of Orange County, Calif., she has met with dozens...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Johnson, Strategy
Research articles 2005-06-01
Sink or Swim?(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
New technologies may represent a key turning point in the history of higher education, with traditional classrooms being supplanted or replaced by E-learning and other information technologies. Not everyone in education recognizes that learning rather than teaching is now the business at hand. Some in government and academia remain skeptical,...
Tags: education, Lehigh University, professor, Web
Research articles 2001-05-01
Sink or swim - why mid-tier firms are floundering.
Oct 21, 2002 (Independent Financial Advisor - ABIX via COMTEX) Middle-sized firms are seen to be doing it tough in the Australian financial services sector at the present time. They are perceived as not being small enough to classed as boutique, but not large enough...
Tags: Zurich Financial Services
Research articles 2002-10-21
Where Old Media Will Sink or Swim
Jeff Jarvis submits: Here’s what I think is a pretty solid business tip: I wouldn’t back or bet on a company and industry that’s described this way in today’s New York Times my emphasis: Like newspaper owners, media moguls are looking for new ways to protect their investment from...
Tags: Media, Jeff Jarvis, New York Times Co., Time Warner Inc.
External links 2009-06-24
Sink or swim? After the flood, Ayers Oil picks up the pieces. (1993 Mississippi River floods; Ayers Oil Co.) (Marketer Profile)
Three of the 15 combination gasoline/convenience stores owned by midsize jobbership Ayers Oil Co were destroyed during the 1993 Mississippi River floods. In addition, three other stores of the Phillips Petroleum Co-branded company lost a large amount of business due to closed or damaged roads. No financial aid is forthcoming...
Tags: Ayers Oil Co. Inc.
Research articles 1993-11-01
Will they sink or swim? - Palestinians in Gaza; To come.(The Palestinians in Gaza)
Greetings from Hamas Israel's withdrawal has left Gaza seething, lawless, poor, cut off from the outside world--and with a one-time chance to make a new start NO MORE nervously scanning the concrete watchtowers as you drive near an Israeli settlement. No...
Tags: West Bank
Research articles 2005-09-24
Sink or swim? After the flood, Ayers Oil picks up the pieces. (1993 Mississippi River floods; Ayers Oil Co.) (Marketer Profile)
Three of the 15 combination gasoline/convenience stores owned by midsize jobbership Ayers Oil Co were destroyed during the 1993 Mississippi River floods. In addition, three other stores of the Phillips Petroleum Co-branded company lost a large amount of business due to closed or damaged roads. No financial aid is forthcoming...
Tags: Ayers Oil Co. Inc.
Research articles 1993-11-01
Move to the music: music should adopt a price and distribution model designed to meet actual consumer demand.(Headliners: the week of September 15, 2003)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Unlike the movie business, new music releases must sink or swim with a single release window. Music listeners clearly want to be able to acquire individual tracks on an a la carte basis, and the record labels must...
Tags: CD, DVD, movie, Universal Music Group
Research articles 2003-09-15
Digital Bridges offers games to PocketNet.
NEW YORK--Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd. will provide two of its wireless games, Wireless Pets and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, to AT&T Wireless for its PocketNet subscribers via the carrier's "Sink or Swim" wireless NEW YORK--Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd. will ...
Tags: AT&T Wireless, game, wireless
Research articles 2001-06-04
Management Report A Survival Guide For New Leaders
"Sink or swim" is a much-loved cliché in business, but it isn't a viable approach for the half-million managers and executives who start new jobs at Fortune 500 companies each year, says Harvard Business School associate professor Michael Watkins. People receive lessons on how to swim before they're allowed in...
Tags: Harvard Business School, job, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2003-12-01
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