March 08, 2009
I’ve just explored two interesting lists. The first is a list of layoffs in 2008. The second is a list of CEO compensation in 2007. The two lists are related because for many of the companies on the first list which laid off employees in 2008, the second list details the companies’ CEO c...
Wheatworks Blog: Financial Matters
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March 07, 2009
By Stephen Wolfram Some might say that Mathematica and A New Kind of Science (NKS) are ambitious projects. But in recent years I’ve been hard at work on a still more ambitious project — called WolframAlpha . And I’m excited to say that in just two months it’s going to be going live: Read the...
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March 06, 2009
Stoopid People are so stupid that you have to spell it with two O’s because one U just isn’t stupid enough. However, Stoopid People are not ignorant. Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge—everyone’s ignorant about something; some are ignorant about a lot of something. Stoopid People arenâ€...
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March 04, 2009
Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), has no qualms about executive transparency. During an appearance Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference in San Francisco, Bartz confessed that she doesn't u...
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Elizabeth Harrow
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March 03, 2009
So who says all CEO’s are bums? If you listen to those in the Obama administration you would think that being a CEO is worse than being a lawyer. Well there is an Israeli CEO, Eli Yones of Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, who may change the president’s mind. You see Mizrahi Tefahot Bank is actually...
Israel Opportunity Investor
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Aaron Katsman
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March 02, 2009
Paul now has 30 free pairs of sneakers from J.Crew for calling them out on some bullshit. It started off with me shopping in a store in NJ. I really liked the sneaker there but the store was closing and I had to head back to Brooklyn. The sales associate told me to just go online and id be able to g...
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February 27, 2009
Sears Holdings chairman Eddie Lampert has unleashed a 15-page manifesto about the current economic meltdown, short-selling rules, civil liberties, and even offers a suggested reading list that includes free-market Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. We were going to summarize this but, um, it's 15-p...
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Michael O’Leary has already been named among the worst corporate leaders of 2006 and if you want learn a quick lesson on ‘what not to do as a company head and how not to deal with PR issues’, then the latest controversy coming from Ryanair Airlines is a fine example to look at. Image courtesy ...
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February 26, 2009
Cross-posted on SocialMedia.biz — As part of my exploration of branding and communication around the world, I am starting a series of interviews with as many European and world-wide movers-and-shakers as are willing to submit themselves to my barrage of probing questions. I was inspired to s...
Marketing Conversation» Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC
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Misuse of a blackberry or PDA is a liability when it comes to leadership. Recently I was interviewing a CFO of a Fortune 100 company about a coaching client of mine, who is one of his direct reports. We were talking about my client’s habit of whipping out his device during meetings and one-on-...
The Recovering Leader
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