Mon - October 12, 2009

What health reform?


Defining the question and critical measurement

There's no shortage of viewpoints, but I'm yet to see anyone present the initial effective decision thinking advocated by Peter Drucker:

Good decision makers know how to define the problem. They ask, "What does the decision have to do to be appropriate to the problem?" Good decision makers don't even think about what is acceptable to whom and what compromises have to be made until they have thought through what the right decision is. But good decision makers know that, in all likelihood, they will have to make compromises in the end. And they know the difference between the right compromise and the wrong compromise.

…

Decision making is not a mechanical job. It is risk taking and a challenge to judgment. The "right answer" (which usually cannot be found anyway) is not central. Central is understanding the problem. Decision making is not an intellectual exercise. It mobilizes the vision, energies, and resources of the organization for effective action. At the end, it is an exercise in courage and responsibility.

Read more about effective decisions in Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 08:31 AM    

Thu - August 27, 2009

Snow Leopard available


Lots of goodies: Easy PDF text selection; More speed; QuickTime X; and many other refinements!


Posted at 09:09 AM    

Tue - July 7, 2009

78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask and Answer


Questions are valuable thinking and attention redirecting tools

78 Important Questions overview added to TLN site.


Web notebook recently updated.. New career, retirement, and financial planning links added to my delicious.

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 01:09 PM    

Fri - May 22, 2009

New article titles and links added to web notebook and delicious


Time investment candidates


Posted at 03:19 PM    

Sat - March 21, 2009

Exercises to Unlock Your Most Creative Ideas


Edward de Bono's Creativity Workout

See introduction


Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry bobembry web photo gallery


Posted at 12:48 PM    

Tue - January 13, 2009

December 2008 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation topics

View web notebook

Having a conscious, carefully chosen list of topics on one's time investment radar may help navigate a world moving toward unimagined futureS—capitalization intended. Will jump starting the economy be sufficient for individuals? Reflect on the worlds of 1630, 1850, 1900, and the decades since 1900. Have they been linear explorations of the years before? What work approach is sufficient? Has the Wall Street or auto industry approach worked? Why does Warren Buffett shy away from investing in tech?

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry bobembry web photo gallery


Posted at 10:07 AM    

Wed - December 10, 2008

Peter Drucker's Managing Oneself


Contents and notes page updated

I've recently added Peter Drucker's Managing Oneself to the Time-Life Navigation site.

The page presents a survey of the basic things we need to be working on in today's world.

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 01:25 PM    

November 2008 article list


Time-life navigation exploration seeds

View web notebook

Quite a few articles concerning our economic challenges.

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 12:28 PM    

Tue - November 4, 2008

October 2008 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 02:38 PM    

Wed - October 15, 2008

CNN's Fareed Zakaria talks with Lee Kuan Yew


About his life as prime minister of Singapore

Video part 1 part 2

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 03:00 PM    

Tue - October 14, 2008

Fixing the economy


Government can't do it

Government may be able to provide some temporary relief, but they can't fix the economy. The economy is a moving target—a composite of our evolving external individual decisions—beyond the reach of economists. Exploring Toward the Next Economics and A Century of Social Transformation (see "futility of politics") provides some additional insight.

Despite news media reports the financial system and the stock market are not the economy. They exist because there is an economy. See Ben Graham for some really good financial investment help.

See snap shot of the economy for an exploration of the real economy which is beyond any government's reach.

economy

To add some current events superimpose September article titles

Resources for coping:

     

Contents:

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 05:27 PM    

Wed - September 10, 2008

August 2008 article list


Time-life navigation exploration "bread crumbs"


Posted at 01:58 PM    

Mon - August 18, 2008

July 2008 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 08:14 AM    

Tue - July 8, 2008

June 2008 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 09:15 AM    

Wed - June 4, 2008

May 2008 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 12:57 PM    

Fri - May 9, 2008

April 2008 article list


Time-life navigation "bread crumbs"


Posted at 09:05 AM    

Thu - April 3, 2008

March 2008 article list


Time-life navigation exploration "bread crumbs"

View web notebook

Articles were collected from a variety of sources (over 50): CBS MarketWatch, Wharton, NY Times, MacWorld, major TV network morning shows, WSJ specialty journals, MIT, Google blogs, selected software forums and blogs, CIO networks, Yahoo news and U.S. Census Bureau plus others.

Finding CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ; . Twitter | bobembry


Posted at 01:23 PM    

Fri - March 21, 2008

New version of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices outline available


Chapter key ideas are provided instead of chapter headings


Posted at 09:19 AM    

Mon - March 3, 2008

Notes on the New Educated Person


From Peter Drucker's writings

I've updated my notes on Peter Drucker's chapter on The Educated Person. The chapter first appeared in Post-Capitalist Society and was later included in The Essential Drucker.

The opening paragraphs of Post-Capitalist Society: EVERY FEW HUNDRED YEARS in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. We cross what in an earlier book (The New Realities -1989) I called a "divide." Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself—its worldview; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later, there is a new world. And the people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grandparents lived and into which their own parents were born.

We are currently living through just such a transformation. It is creating the post-capitalist society, which is the subject of this book.

Is "The Educated Person" something you want on your radar as a parent, mentor, or an individual? And how does one get and keep on their radar?

The document is a dynamic outline. The triangles at the left of a topic can be clicked to expand or contract the outline.

Notes on The Educated Person

  

Links above lead to book outlines


Posted at 08:47 AM    

February 2008 article list


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 08:32 AM    

Mon - February 11, 2008

January 2008 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds or "bread crumbs"


Posted at 07:41 AM    

Tue - January 1, 2008

December 2007 article list


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 01:09 PM    

Mon - December 31, 2007

Thoughts on Charitable Giving


Strategies for making gifts go further toward a functioning society

Recently there have been several articles suggesting ways to best channel one's giving:

6 smart tips for charitable giving

  • Decide what your mission is
  • Check the program ratio
  • Use the Internet, wisely
  • Give by shopping, buying, matching
  • Watch out for fraud
  • Volunteer with friends

Pick a charity with a purpose

Finding a cause where your dollar will go the farthest should not be an exercise in blind faith or second-guessing. Apply the same rigor to your philanthropic efforts as you would to your financial investments.

Five questions to ask a charity organization before committing any money to it:

  1. How will my money be used?
  2. What impact do you anticipate having?
  3. How will you monitor and evaluate that impact?
  4. Why is what you're doing unique?
  5. What are your governance structures?

Just remember to treat any contribution you make as an investment: talk to the charitable organization's staff, set expectations and get personal updates

How hasty year-end donations hurt deserving causes

"indiscriminate givers will hand hard-earned cash to charities that burn up to 95% of revenue on administrative and fundraising expenses"

"such giveaways are perpetuating undeserving organizations that draw money from groups that make the most of every cent of generosity they receive"

"Organizations that telemarket generally are the ones you should avoid because they're most often cited for dubious practices,"

Except in the cases of outright fraud, philanthropy experts say, no U.S. politician or government agency has yet dared to tell people their heartfelt contributions are going to waste

Three tips to year-end givers as part of their due diligence:

  1. Find a charity that does exactly what you want to see done
  2. Look for long-time leaders
  3. Be sure the charity is spending at least 75% of its proceeds on the cause

"The most charitable thing anyone can do is to educate themselves on where their money is going, to ensure they accomplish the most good for something that really matters to them."

Beyond the considerations above:

See Managing the NonProfit Organization for more information—especially the preface.

See "Citizenship Through the Social Sector" in Post Capitalist Society (remember: every couple of hundred years in Western History—it will help interpret the news)

See "The Second Half of Your Life" in The Essential Drucker

       

Suggested general work approach: Review the resources above; take notes on areas of interest; think broad and detailed; and calendarize over your remaining life.


Posted at 01:12 PM    

Thu - December 6, 2007

November 2007 article list


Time-investment exploration seeds or "bread crumbs"


Posted at 01:58 PM    

Tue - November 6, 2007

October 2007 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds or "bread crumbs"


Posted at 01:08 PM    

Tue - October 2, 2007

September 2007 article list added to my NoteTaker web notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds or "bread crumbs"


Posted at 01:09 PM    

Thu - September 6, 2007

May - August 2007 article list added to my NoteTaker notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 03:35 PM    

Mon - July 30, 2007

Effective Executive in Action updated


Outline format improved

I recently revised the outline to better reflect the books's structure. See introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;

Posted at 09:25 AM    

Technorati blog claim


Process to claim my blog at Technorati

Special link below:

Technorati Profile


Posted at 08:06 AM    

Sat - May 5, 2007

April 2007 article lists added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 09:41 AM    

Wed - April 11, 2007

March 2007 article list added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds


Posted at 09:40 AM    

Fri - March 16, 2007

January and February 2007 article lists added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Time-life navigation exploration seeds

View web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment. A Google search should locate many of these articles. Clipping and mind mapping key ideas using thinking broad and thinking detailed would provide a foundation for further exploration and thinking canvas creation. Calendarization may be appropriate. What additional foundation for future directed decisions would be useful?

The most productive ideas are likely to be the result of aiming high, determining what needs doing, and a match to the individual's strengths, values, etc. (See Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself and Management Challenges for the 21st Century).

Suggested articles:

See bobembry's bookmarks on del.icio.us for additional favorite pages

CONNECTIONS: Intel map part of an exploration blueprint. Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:49 AM    

Thu - January 18, 2007

Better than deal or no deal?


Spend a hour calendarizing a lazy portfolio

A lot of people spent a hour this week watching Deal or No Deal -- with no financial gain. Spending an hour calendarizing a lazy portfolio would dramatically improve their financial investing performance and retirement opions?

Posted at 11:34 AM    

December 2006 article list


TLN exploration seeds


Posted at 11:23 AM    

Fri - December 15, 2006

November 2006 article list added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Articles that seem relevant to time-life navigation

View web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment. A Google search should locate many of these articles. Clipping and mind mapping key ideas using thinking broad and thinking detailed would provide a foundation for further exploration and thinking canvas creation. Calendarization may be appropriate. What additional foundation for future directed decisions would be useful?

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:57 AM    

Wed - November 1, 2006

October 2006 article list added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Source: October entries in my DEVONthink Pro articles database

View web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 02:22 PM    

Tue - October 3, 2006

September 2006 article list added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Source: September entries in my DEVONthink Pro articles database

View web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:19 AM    

Wed - September 6, 2006

Why Some Older Executives Land Jobs -- and Others Don't


By Perri Capell

Why do some over-50 job hunters struggle to find jobs, while others seem to have little trouble attracting offers? Surprisingly, recruiters say it has less to do with candidates' wrinkles or gray hairs, and more to do with their corporate experience and the direction of their career path. Read more ...

Posted at 10:49 AM    

Defining the Duties Of the American CEO


By Peter F. Drucker

CEOs have ultimate responsibility for the work of everybody else in their institution. But they also have work of their own -- and the study of management has so far paid little attention to it. It is the same work, whether the organization is a business enterprise, a nonprofit, a church, a school or university, a government agency; and whether it is large or small, world-wide or purely local. And it is work only CEOs can do, but also work which CEOs must do.

In any organization, regardless of its mission, the CEO is the link between the Inside, i.e., "the organization," and the Outside -- society, the economy, technology, markets, customers, the media, public opinion. Inside, there are only costs. Results are only on the outside. Indeed the modern organization (beginning with the Jesuit Order in 1536) was expressly created to have results on the outside, that is, to make a difference in its society or its economy.

The CEO's Tasks

To define the meaningful Outside of the organization is the CEO's first task. The definition is anything but easy, let alone obvious. For a particular bank, for instance, is the meaningful Outside the local market for commercial loans? Is it the national market for mutual funds? Or is it major industrial companies and their short-term credit needs? All three of these "outsides" deal with money and credit. And one cannot tell from the bank's published accounts, e.g., its balance sheet, on which of these "outsides" it concentrates. Each of them is a different business and requires a different organization, different people, different competencies and different definitions of results. Even the very biggest bank is unlikely to be a leader in all these "outsides." For which of these to concentrate on is a highly risky decision and one very hard to change or reverse. Only the CEO can make it. But also the CEO must make it. It is the first task of the CEO.

The second specific task of the CEO read more ...

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Peter Drucker On Leadership

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 10:46 AM    

August 2006 article list added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Source: August entries in my DEVONthink Pro articles database

View web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life-TIME investment system introduction

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 10:29 AM    

Wed - August 2, 2006

'America's Got Talent' teaches us how to plan a successful retirement


MarketWatch article suggest following one's dreams is the answer.

Article link

In the article "doing what one loves" and following one's dreams is suggested. At the bottom of the article:

"Even Peter Drucker, one of the greatest masters of the business world, did it. Listen:
"I was doing very well as a young investment banker in London in the mid-1930s, and the work clearly fit my strengths. Yet I did not see myself making a contribution as an asset manager. People, I realized, were what I valued, and I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery. I had no money and no job prospects. Despite the continuing Depression, I quit—and it was the right thing to do."
That's the best kind of retirement planning.

Got talent? Don't waste it.

Some day you'll be called to account for your gifts. "

The path that Peter Drucker chose is not as simple as implied above—a functioning society.

The paths that he suggests for others:
Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself;
The Effective Executive in Action;
The Daily Drucker—" what can I contribute? rather than what can I achieve?";
Josh Abrams life;
Leadership (What needs doing); and
Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Max  De Pree: Amatuers and Polishing Gifts

Edward de Bono: The Happiness Purpose (the legitimate purpose of life is happiness and the best foundation for happiness is self-importance)

My opinion: What we love and our dreams are a function of our mental patterns at a point in time along our life lines which are embedded in the changing social and economic picture. We need a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead rather that a rigid prescription. One of the challenges we face is that many years down the road we discover we've been living someone else's life in a prior time period or that we wasted our talents on trivial pursuits. My TLN web site provides a prototype blueprint for such a work approach—time-life navigation ©.

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 07:25 PM    

Tearing up the Jack Welch playbook


The Six Sigma master was once the undisputed authority in management. But Fortune is finding that today's smart CEOs are following a different set of rules.

Main article

The new rules

  1. Old rule: Big dogs own the street. New rule: Agile is best; being big can bite you.
  2. Old rule: Be No. 1 or No. 2 in your market. New rule: Find a niche, create something new.
  3. Old rule: Shareholders rule. New rule: The customer is king.
  4. Old rule: Be lean and mean. New rule: Look out, not in.
  5. Old rule: Rank your players; go with the A's. New rule: Hire passionate people.
  6. Old rule: Hire a charismatic CEO New rule: Hire a courageous CEO.
  7. Old rule: Admire my might. New rule: Admire my soul.

Jack Welch fires back

As you're reading, try mentally placing yourself in the world of 1970 and testing these ideas against what actually happened.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Organization evolution definition; Marketing and Innovation in a society moving in time; About change; Toward unimagined futures; and The X-Economy

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 05:52 PM    

July 2006 article list added to my NoteTaker article title notebook


Source: July entries in my DEVONthink Pro articles database

View web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life lines

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 04:38 PM    

Wed - July 5, 2006

Theodore (Ted) Levitt dies


Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Levitt died Wednesday, June 28 at his home in Belmont, Mass., after a long illness. He was 81 years old

His article “Marketing Myopia,” argued that companies and entire industries declined because management defined their businesses too narrowly, immediately became a huge success, with requests for 35,000 reprints from 1,000 different companies soon after its publication. More than 40 years later, more than 850,000 reprints had been sold, making the article one of the best-selling HBR articles of all time.

... snip, snip ...

The key question that all managers must be able to answer, he advised, is “What business are you in?” The railroads, for example, “let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business instead of the transportation business,” he wrote.
See the rest of the story ...

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Marketing Crisis

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 01:53 PM    

June 2006 article list added


June articles added to my DEVONthink database

New article titles have been added to my web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life lines

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 12:48 PM    

Wed - June 7, 2006

May 2006 article list added


May articles added to my DEVONthink database

New article titles have been added to my web notebook

Titles can be reviewed to identify areas for future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life lines

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:31 AM    

Thu - May 4, 2006

April 2006 article list added


April articles added to my DEVONthink database

New article titles added to my NoteTaker notebook (blog_clips).

Article titles can be scanned to identify areas of future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life lines

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:03 AM    

Mon - April 24, 2006

Marketing In Crisis


Contrasting approaches to economic participation


In a recent Forbes.com article Jack Trout wrote: "Peter Drucker once wrote that since the purpose of business is to generate customers, only two functions do this: marketing and innovation. All other business functions are expenses. That said, one could argue that this advice is being ignored as marketing appears to not be getting the kind of attention it deserves.

The average tenure of chief marketing officers is less than 23 months. (That's a quicker turnover than NFL coaches.) Then there's the phenomenon of some of America's big brands being in big trouble. Some have disappeared; some are in financial difficulty; and some are watching their competitors eat their lunch—or, shall we say, market share. Why are some brands losing their long-lived integrity? Where has marketing gone wrong in guiding these businesses? General Motors, Sears, Kodak and AT&T are shells of what they once were.

There are many reasons for this state of affairs. For openers, there is a level of competition that is mind-boggling. The last time I counted, there were 180 brands of dog food. A simple product like water had 50 brands. Got a cough or cold? You have 134 brands of medicine to choose from. This introduces what I call the tyranny of choice. If you make a mistake, your customers simply move on to any of a number of other options. In other words, if you make a mistake, your competitor quickly gets your business—and you never get it back. …" See the rest of the article ...

The product (brand) orientation view of marketing mentioned above and so widely practiced in the U.S. economy is not what Peter Drucker had in mind when describing basic business functions. Those with a marketing or other functional background read what Peter Drucker wrote and naturally fit it into their existing mental patterns. Read more …

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Changing Social and Economic Picture

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 01:10 PM    

Wed - April 5, 2006

The land of pension fantasies


New survey finds 61% of workers expect a pension

Corporate America has changed the retirement-plan landscape but a good portion of workers don't seem to realize that yet. See the rest of the story at CBS MarketWatch ...

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: CSEP

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:32 AM    

March 2006 article list added


March articles added to my DEVONthink database

New article titles added to my NoteTaker notebook (blog_clips).

Article titles can be scanned to identify areas of future time investment.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Life lines

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:21 AM    

The Effective Executive in Action


by Peter Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello

The Effective Executive in Action table of contents has been added to my TLN site. The document is a dynamic outline. Clicking on the triangles to the left of a topic expands and contracts the outline.

Effectiveness is a key element in career evolution, but more is needed and useful.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Changing social and economic picture

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 10:54 AM    

Wed - March 1, 2006

Recent TLN site additions


Conceptual resources and the brain in time


Posted at 12:06 PM    

Tue - November 15, 2005

Peter Drucker Dies


Peter Drucker, the management visionary whose humanist ideas deeply shaped the modern organization, died November 11, 2005 at the age of 95 in his home in Claremont, California.


Posted at 10:41 AM    

Wed - October 19, 2005

American Generations


American Generations tells the story of four family members in an ever-changing America. (a Scott Burns series)

The Dallas Morning News' series follows four members of the same family - Joanne, born in 1920; Bobby, born in 1940; Stephen, born in 1963; Shelby, born in 1997 - through the 20th century. Their successes and trials are the story of all of us - buoyed by rising prosperity, medical advances and more individual freedom, but challenged by fresh national problems and our own human frailty.

The first article in the series. Links to remaining articles are at the bottom of each page.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Developing a work plan: TLN key ideas

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:46 AM    

Mon - October 17, 2005

Changing social and economic landscape article list updated



Article titles can be used for idea stimulation. See notebook

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: About change

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 07:18 PM    

Sun - August 14, 2005

Does an M.B.A. Pay Off For Career Changers?


Traditionally, the M.B.A. degree has guaranteed students a fresh start in a new career.

But now with so many graduates competing for so few jobs, recruiters can afford to be very choosy. They are less inclined to take a risk with a career-switcher when there are plenty of M.B.A. graduates with past experience in their industries or job functions.

See the rest of the story ...

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Career evolution

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 01:30 PM    

Thu - August 4, 2005

On point: conversation with business guru Peter Drucker


Tune in to hear a conversation with business guru Peter Drucker about the direction America is taking.

95-year-old Peter Drucker is one of the world's most respected thinkers. For six decades, he's helped shape many of today's great corporations and made the study of management theory a respected discipline. As a journalist, teacher, consultant, and author of more than 35 books, Drucker's expertise reaches far beyond the confines of the Fortune 500.

Born in Vienna in 1909, Drucker studied law in Germany before moving to London to escape the Nazis, and later to the United States. In 1945, his book, "Concept of the Corporation," based on a two-year study of General Motors, became an instant bestseller.

Since 1971 he has taught at Clarement Graduate University, which in 1987 named its business school after him. His new book is titled "The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done."

Hear the rest of the story ...

Notes from broadcast

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: About change

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 11:34 AM    

Tue - August 2, 2005

Are fund expenses too high?


Expense ratios are the best predictors of performance -- way better than historical returns

Kinnel underscored his point rather dramatically: "You'd be better off randomly picking a fund with expenses in the cheapest quartile and past returns in the worst quartile than a fund with returns in top quartile and expenses in the highest quartile."

In fact, the expense ratio is not only the best predictor of performance, as Kinnel says, it is the "only" statistically reliable predictor, according to a study by the Boston-based Financial Research Corporation.

See the rest of the story ...

A must read for any financial investor interested in their future wealth.

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: Financial investing

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 08:53 AM    

Mon - July 25, 2005

Wolfsburg, `Special' City, Reels as Volkswagen Flounders


In Wolfsburg, an industrial town 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Berlin, Volkswagen AG employs almost half the 122,000 inhabitants. Europe's largest carmaker also funded the swimming pool, paid for the planetarium, and financed the university.

The company even paid 480 million euros ($584 million) in 1999 to build a car museum that highlights the transformation of Wolfsburg, founded by the Nazis in 1938 to house workers who built the original ``People's Car,'' into the pride of German manufacturing.

``This is a special city,'' said Mayor Rolf Schnellecke, in an interview in his office overlooking Porsche Strasse, the main Wolfsburg pedestrian mall named after another German automobile icon, Ferdinand Porsche.

As Volkswagen flounders, Wolfsburgers get concerned. The Wolfsburger Nachrichten, the local newspaper, sees an ``epochal cut.'' The company's sales are sliding, and Chief Executive Officer Bernd Pischetsrieder plans to eliminate 7 billion euros in costs within three years. The head of personnel and the top labor union official resigned this month amid a corruption probe.

See the rest of the story ...

CONNECTIONS: Intel map? Other related: About change and Organization evolution

Technorati : ; ; ; ; ;


Posted at 03:52 PM    

Jack Welch's new job signals

New twist on flexible scheduling increases productivity

Picking funds proves tricky

Fewer in U.S. marry as more live together

Vandross' Funeral Soulful and Powerful

U.S. losing lead in science and engineering-study

Seeing Things Whole

TV technology at edge of legal frontier

Peter Drucker and a functioning society

Luther Vandross Dies at 54

Best rates on individual health plans

Putting More Now Into The Internet

Walton Remembered for Education Efforts

Uninsured drive premiums up for all

Losing Our Country

Are We a Nation of 'Psuedo-ADD' Sufferers?

FedEx chief takes cue from leaders in history

Fund 'casinos' win a 'loser's game'

How Podcasting Works

Trading places

Podcasts growing at frantic pace

Many Scientists Admit to Misconduct

Drought casts suicide shadow over rural Australia

A Good Vacation Can Serve As an Inspiration for Change

Pinpointing Your Career Goals

Federal Rules Making the Nation's Private Pension Problem Worse

Toyota eyes new cost-cut strategy

No time for time off

Sales of small businesses driving wealth accumulation

Fed seeks a way to deflate housing slowly

Louvre to unveil new website on June 7

U.S. stock market's future depends on developing nations

Bringing Home the Bacon

Poor corporate practices can heighten investor risk

Six steps to creating towns that promote successful aging

Some companies actively seek older workers

Take That, Google: Bill Gates Struts Microsoft's New Search Stuff

Child Population Dwindles in San Francisco

The World's Highest-Paid Temps?

Britain suffers sense of humour failure due to worries of modern life

Gates Warns on Information Overload

New consumer medical site launched

Skills Shortage Gives Employee Training New Life

U.S. lags in gender equality

Baby Boomer Bye-Bye

Corporate America Pulling Back Pension Safety Net

Landing a Job At a Start-up

For Some Techies, an Interminable Workday

Soldier Recalls Horror of Nazi Camp

Growth

The Return of Japan, Inc.?

IBM sees $300-$500 mln 2005 savings from job cuts

Greenspan says fears growing protectionism

Microsoft to Lease Some Ideas to Start-Ups

Retiree health benefits disappearing

Merck CEO quits, insider takes helm

Gillette profit rises

Why Tweedy, Browne is shutting out new fund investors

Man gets the poop on outsourcing

Social Security reform is simply a diversion

Gates says new Xbox has chance to be No. 1

Hitler Long Gone But Legacy Still Haunts Germany

Rewarding Information Work

Study: 20 Million U.S. Workers Lack Health Insurance

Microsoft says PC users drowning in info

Variety of Exercise May Ward Off Dementia

Management Sage Drucker Speaks to Investors Too

Toyota Exec Urges Japan Cos. to Up Prices

Russia's Putin: Soviet Collapse a Tragedy

Fairy tales linked to violent relationships

Long-Married Couple Die on Same Day

Business education: its changing faces

Traffic signal operations poor

Environmentalists Mull Future of Movement

Books and a time-life navigation work approach

Post-Capitalist Society

Ten Laws Of The Modern World

The Productivity of the New Work Forces

Bamboo network' trumps Taiwan tension

Murdoch Urges Editors to Embrace Internet

Honda May Set Record, in Soybean Exports

Einstein's Legacy Keeps on Expanding

Failing Nations Threaten U.S. Security

Personal responsibility waning, experts say

AARP: Drug prices jump 7.1% in 2004

Resolving Conflicts at Home Over Your Career Choices

Alternative tax can snare filers who take lots of tax breaks

Bono's War On Poverty And AIDS

Midlife Crisis Becomes An Issue for More Women

The Forbes Global 2000

Study: Mediterranean Diet Linked with Longer Life

Massacre in Rio Getting Little Attention

Time Warner, Comcast Said to Buy Adelphia

The six rules for lazy investors

Mutual fund industry and the skin game

My Life So Far

JetBlue Has Best Airline Service

No good ways to pay for long-term care -- yet

In the Competition for DVD Rentals by Mail, Two Empires Strike Back

Obesity drags down child well-being

Many Germans Want Berlin Wall Back

Newspaper Giants Buy Web News Monitor

A Takeover Roils Japan: Politeness Out, Hostility In

Report: Human Damage to Earth Worsening Fast

Employers Relying On Personality Tests To Screen Applicants

GM: It's Worse Than You Thought

Canon to Branch Out Into Biotech Business

Recession Alert

U.S. Relying More on Foreign Investors

John DeLorean, Innovative Automaker, Dies at 80

Firms Reportedly Buy Toys R Us for $5.7B

Good employers, good investments

Buicks popular in China

Oil Futures Prices Leap Above $57 a Barrel

Real Estate Reliance May Hurt California

Overworked -- and angry about it

S&P Lowers GM's Outlook to Negative

Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?

Ex-Chief of WorldCom Is Found Guilty in $11 Billion Fraud

Brand Baloney

Why the Boss Won't Help With That 401(k)

Principals pass - then fail

Experts Say 30 Minutes of Exercise Enough

Family Says Atlanta Hostage Changing Life

China Dons Even Bigger Export Hat

Crisis? Not in Social Security. Deficits drive the problem

2005 Thunderbird to Be the Last for Ford

What Matters Most Depends On Where You Are

Warren Buffett's 2004 Shareholder's letter

New Priorities (Peter Drucker)

Buffett's Wisdom For The Ages

Sony names a foreigner as its new CEO

A new kind of retirement for boomers

The emerging fend for yourself society

Carly's Way

The CEO in the New Millennium

Beyond the Information Revolution

Trauma of Iraq war haunting thousands returning home

Sad, Lonely? For a Good Time, Call Vivienne

A Brilliant Mind and an Anguished Life

Saving Software From Itself

Dancing Lessons (IBM after Louis Gerstner)

Using free cash flow to find good stocks

Big grocers under stress

Tag structure

State Lawmakers Target Bush's Schools Law

Krispy Kreme paying turnaround firm $400k a month

Disney to Turn Miramax Into 'Elite SWAT Team'

Help Wanted: a Chief Knowledge Officer

Chapter 11 bankruptcies on verge of surge?

Elizabeth Moore completed her dissertation

Colleges close generation gap

Viva Cirque Du Soleil!

Interactive Viral Campaigns Ask Consumers to Spread the Word

How Directors Can Shield Themselves

New Challenges For CFOs

The X-economy

Old news: Motorola spinning off semiconductor business

Intel Reports Milestone in Lasers

Using a computer in life to have a life

White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

He loves you not: Valentine's hype can force tough decisions

Retirement preparation--save 10 percent

Carly's Gone. HP Celebrates

Personality, Not Values, Makes the Marriage

Under One Roof, Aging Together Yet Alone

Mutual Funds: 70 that regularly beat the market

U.S. Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High

Towns offer free land to newcomers

Eaton Vance stock tops over 25 years

Hewlett-Packard Ousts CEO Carly Fiorina

Peter Drucker's at it Again!

How Social Security changes would affect your retirement

Robots as surgical enablers

Made To Measure (advertising)

What Is Nanotechnology?

TiVo President Yudkovitz Resigns; Shares Fall

Half of Bankruptcy Due to Medical Bills -- U.S. Study

SBC to Cut Nearly 13,000 Jobs in AT&T Deal

American Express to Spin Off Unit

Study shows some teens not as Web-savvy as parents

While mergers signal optimism, they also mean job losses

Texas Teens Increased Sex After Abstinence Program

Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly Underway

CFOs feeling the heat of legal responsibilities

Teaching Computers to Read No Simple Task

Executives' Thoughts on Financing Content in a Digital Age

Meth Becoming a Threat in Some Cities

McDonald's Quarterly Profit Triples

P&G to Buy Gillette

World Leaders Mark Auschwitz Liberation

Reports: SBC in Talks to Buy Rival AT&T

The Yahoo Factor

Army Prepares 'Robo-Soldier' for Iraq

Fallen U.S. Porn King Goldstein Rebuilds with Bagels

Google Hires Top Firefox Web Browser Programmer

Google to Branch Into Television

Working to Prevent Diabetes in Children

Sex Map Shows Chain of Almost 300 High School Lovers

Measuring the value that social responsibility adds

Late-Night TV King Johnny Carson Dies

Microsoft Struggles to Sell Self as Growth Stock

Walter B. Wriston: A Remembrance

Malls Fear a Retail Upheaval

Cancer the Top Killer for Those Under 85

Intel Sets New Structure on 'Platforms'

TiVo Faces Threat As Options Multiply

Prediction: India, China will be economic giants

New FBI Software May Be Unusable

Porn Business Driving DVD Technology

The Internet's Future? It Depends on Whom You Ask

IBM in 'Flexible' Outsourcing Deal with Insurer

PeopleSoft Layoffs on Friday Says Oracle

How Lucent Lost It

Wegmans Tops Fortune's Best-Employer List

Congress to explore tuition remedies

Alternative medicine as cost saver

What’s Next for Google

World On Brink Of Ruin

Look to 8-Ks for Exec. Benefit Details

Saturn tries to add luster to brand

Little improvement in cell service

With Japan aging, Toyota to staff factories with robots

Celebrity's not the same as credibility

Power Users, Ready for a Refill

ABC News 2004 in review

Why IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo

Drugstores Fret as Insurers Demand Pills by Mail

Myths vs. realities of trust funds

Bill Miller Beats S&P 500 for 14th Year

Netflix Friends

Oracle Fires Top PeopleSoft Executives

Hiring in 2005 set to improve

Marketing's Flip Side: The 'Determined Detractor'

Car salesmen keep deals in pocket

Treating Childhood Anxiety Prevents Adult Disorders

Conservative Students Target Liberal Profs

Most Over-40s Engage in Sex, But Problems Common

Money Problems Leading Cause of Holiday Stress

America's Best Big Companies

Automakers are loading new cars with an array of wireless communications and computing technologies

U.S. Slips in Attracting the World's Best Students

Inside the Mac Revolution

Site status page has been updated

Buildings to go up like never before

Google to Scan Books From 5 Big Libraries

Council on Competitiveness Urges National Innovation

New Gallup Poll Raises Questions About Media Focus on 'Values'

Services

Articles in the news

IBM said to put PC business on the block

Dragon Naturally Speaking

Gartner: Half of US IT operations jobs to vanish

Top Ten Technology Trends for 2005

Number of Small Businesses Continues to Grow

Revenues for Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunications

“Stay-at-Home” Parents Top 5 Million

A life fulfilled

Economic and community development page updated

The Management Revolution updated

Utilizing web article clippings

Planning system overview

Work Demands May Influence Dementia Risk

What's next?

Business/financial analysis resume pages

Greenspan Warns That U.S. Deficits Pose Risk to Dollar

Purpose driven (Rick Warren)

Peter Drucker on Leadership

Project outliners

Work life unimagined futures

Job Prospects Bright for College Seniors

U.S. Author of 'Rape of Nanking' Commits Suicide

The Essence of Management updated

Unclear mission statements

The Echo Boomers (The future that has already happened)

Capri, Amalfi, Positano, Tuscany

Land between the lakes

Enlisting partners from Tennessee's development community

Site status page has been updated

Griffin ships EarJams iPod earbud enhancers

Worried about your retirement plans? Get a report card

U.S. faces ominous fiscal picture with huge deficit

Laboratory Mice Produce Human Antibodies

Students Experience Reverse Culture Shock

Time-life navigation introduction

Getting the Right Things Done

Reflections on the results of enlisting site participants

Entrepreneurs in the news

©