So you’ve looked at the economy and your company’s shaky bottom line, and decided you need some preventive medicine if not a flu shot. You decide to call a management meeting to see what your team thinks can be done to keep you out of trouble. Your sales manager, plant manager, and controller all come [...]

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I was thinking about the oldest living people – a man in India, a woman from Georgia (U.S.A.), a woman in Japan.  Good genes, I guess.
And good living, I thought next.
Balanced living.  Work hard, play hard, rest well, give what you can, love where you must and where you may, and let some folks take [...]

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Most “corporations are still choosing to cut costs as a means to improve productivity as opposed to investing in human or technological capital.”
- Carl Tannenbaum, LaSalle Bank/ABN Amro
One of the first business casualties in a recession is often the marketing budget. The instinct is to save money by cutting back on marketing. Though this strategy [...]

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I wanted to share this with you:  an early preview of Twine’s new version T2, from CEO Nova Spivack: 5 minutes of the Web the way you would want it.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWF3m14i7Vk&feature=player_embedded#t=43
 
In light of full disclosure, I advised Nova Spivack at Earthweb, and during the early concept stage of Twine some years ago.

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[Y]ou are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, [...]

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We all nod knowingly when anyone discusses the importance of vision, mission, and business planning, then most of us go back to what we were doing before the interruption. Here are some ideas for making it easier and more productive, from a management consultant and business planning expert.
Lets hear it for Business Planning! Give me [...]

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A favorite task of mine –throwing out old stuff and papers and files, clearing away the past, preparing for my ever-evolving new life — put a small clipping in my hand, which I loved enough to save, but with no reference except its title and Harriet Rubin’s name.  No date, no magazine credit, nothing.
 
But the [...]

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I remember the highs of the early days of the Internet Boom, when many of my clients were under 30.  One of them - a visionary in his 20s - IPO’d his B2B company in 1998 – because part of his gift was the vision to anticipate the market early enough to catch the wave [...]

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Summary:  the second in an intermittent series on lawyers and startups—this one on owning what you create.  Basically, a written agreement must affirmatively assign rights of anything put to (digital or other) paper.
This is the second in a series of posts about the landmines startups face when they skip using lawyers.  You can indeed not use [...]

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How long are you working each week?  How does it change when conditions change?
Strangely, you would expect to work less during a recession and more when market conditions are booming.  Not always so.
During downturns, we often work more hours than when we are busy with a book of clients – because creating work is more [...]

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