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- Why Are Some Nations Rich While Others Are Poor?
- If countries create sound institutions and improve their governments, then their citizens can expect that their hard work will be protected by the rule of law and poverty can be fixed, says an MIT professor. But why do some nations develop sound, transparent institutions while others settle for warlords...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Can You Switch Careers Without Taking a Pay Cut?
- American workers are making sacrifices to keep their jobs and compromising during the job hunt. But regardless of whether times are tough, if you switch careers, must you take always accept a pay cut? by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- NFL Owners: "32 Republicans That Vote Socialist"
- By sharing equally the revenue from TV deals and ticket sales, not to mention instituting a hard salary cap for players, the league has maintained its "any given Sunday" mystique. by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Predicting the Next Bubble
- "We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common, except human nature," Alan Greenspan argued in a recent interview with the BBC. Assuming Greenspan is right and crises are inevitable, where will the next bubble arise? by...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Constitutionality of White House "Czars" Questioned
- Amid the fallout of the Van Jones (Obama's former green jobs adviser) resignation, many are now questioning how the White House has been relying upon "czars" to execute the Administration's agenda. by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- How Bad Bosses Haunt Companies After They're Gone
- When a company really needs to right its ship, a true outsider without any connections to prior leadership might be the best person for the job. That's because protegees have a psychological tendency to honor the decisions of their predecessors -- even if those were failing strategies. by Stefan...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- The First-Time Consultant Conundrum
- Say you are in a transition period in your career. Seemingly out of the blue, a former employer or colleague contacts you to see if you are available to help with a new project. However, after tentatively accepting your first consulting gig, you start to wonder whether you've...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Secrets of a Solid Handshake
- Whether you are a man or woman, a firm, assertive handshake is key to making a good first impression, according to a study conducted at the University of Alabama. This may seem obvious to most, yet many continue to flunk this basic test. by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Outrage over Baucus' Individual Health Insurance Mandate
- I've never bought many of the arguments against healthcare reform which rely on an irrational fear of the Big Bad Government, since the feds already "run" healthcare in many ways. Nonetheless, over the last few months we've all heard about "death panels" and "rationed care" (it is...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Seth Godin Is Wrong about Nonprofits and the Web
- Godin doesn't shy away from telling it as he sees it and that's what keeps his blog thought-provoking. As you might imagine, one of his latest entries, which takes aim at nonprofits for supposedly resisting social media tools, is causing quite a stir in the advocacy community. by Stefan...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Do Newsweek's Corporate Green Ratings Matter?
- Newsweek has ranked every company in the S&P 500 to determine the greenest large corporations in America. Ideally, rankings like this will cause corporations to take real steps towards sustainability as they fight for customers and talent. Such a green arms race could theoretically save the planet and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- What the World's Industrial Powers Can Learn from Pittsburgh
- All eyes will be on Pittsburgh this week as the city hosts the G20 conference. According to the Economist, the attending foreign ministers might learn a few things from Pittsburgh's "transformation," as they too preside over cities struggling to make the switch away from manufacturing. by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Guess Which Economy Doubled in Size Last Year
- With the global economy in a slump, leaders from the world's top industrial powers are meeting in Pittsburgh to discuss ways to ramp up growth. In the meantime, investors keep scanning the planet for opportunities in a down market. There's always China, whose economy the Asian Development...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- The Horror of Abundance
- An education "expert" hired by Pearson finds that students who rely on web searches rather than Pearson's textbooks "are woefully inadequate when it comes to processing real information they need." Barack Obama complains that his healthcare reforms have stalled because there's been too much "misinformation" circulating over the last few...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Welcome to the Age of Online "Brandjacking"
- Seth Godin, the popular new media pundit and blogger, has caused yet another controversy this week. His obscure start-up, Squidoo, which lets users create custom pages around their interests, announced a new initiative called "Brands in Public." The idea is that companies can no longer control everything that's created around...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- When the Check Gets "Lost in the Mail"
- Monday often brings the biggest mail haul. You pluck through the stack and sure enough, despite previous assurances from clients that their outstanding invoices were processed, you still don't see a bunch of checks you were expecting. Years back, at a start-up I worked at, one of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Why Capitalism Only Works If Everyone Can Win
- This morning I came across a thought-provoking article on Forbes, which is surprising since that magazine's editorials tend to staunchly defend what I consider to be "crony capitalism."Â Michael Maiello reminds us that the whole reason our society chooses capitalism, with all its inequalities and brutal competition, is because it's...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Will Greed Still Be Good Upon Gordon Gekko's Return to Wall Street?
- This week in New York, Oliver Stone and crew begin filming the sequel to the 1987 satire ‘Wall Street.’ Gekko will be back after serving his time in jail. But will the "Greed is Good" mantra remain? by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Can Obama's Green Jobs Czar Deliver After Controversial Comments?
- There is one area where Obama is still given the benefit of the doubt--the nascent green economy. Unfortunately, the President's "green jobs" adviser has been dogged down recently by two controversies. by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Who Benefits from the "Link Economy"?
- New media types claim that producers of original content who want to put their work behind a paywall or demand payment from linkers, just don't get the fluidity of web. But how valuable are all those inbound links? by Stefan Deeran
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
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