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Inside South Africa's Inexplicable Love Affair with China
While the recent economic turmoil in China is prompting a number of African countries to reconsider their growing economic dependence on the PRC, not so in South Africa. Both the government and the...
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Felt Fair Pay
You'll find few people who would disagree that higher wages would help stimulate our economy. With more money to spend, pent-up demand for goods and services would quickly spur buying behavior. And...
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Minding Politics
It's that time again: Every four years Americans splash about in a pre-electoral pond to help decide who will lead the country. The campaign process can seem part shouting match, part popularity...
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The Secret to Success Is... There is No Secret!
In his new book, Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless, Jeffrey Hayzlett talks hard work and Thinking Big and Acting Bigger -- Because you Can I had been Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)...
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Federal Reserve
Spotlight on the Fed "If there were no God," the French philosopher Voltaire famously opined, "it would have been necessary to invent one." Once upon a time there was no Federal Reserve. But after the...
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Will We Hold It Wednesday -- Strong Bounce Edition
Fly markets, FLY!!! Sure it doesn't look all that impressive on the Big Chart, but what a turnaround we're having this month as China drops $236Bn into their market, boosting the Shanghai back to...
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State of the Entrepreneurship Union: The Disease Has Become an Epidemic
I have always been bullish about the spread of entrepreneurship as a global phenomenon. My organization has worked diligently towards propagating the lessons learned from successful entrepreneurs to...
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Future Capability Planning in Action: Bosch's Acquisition of Battery-Maker Seeo
If you're not going to follow up your long-term strategic planning with future capability planning, don't even bother starting the strategic planning work. Strategy is about the creation and allocation...
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Hacking a Corporate Culture: Stories, Heroes and Rituals in Startups and...
I've spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. I've summarized my learnings in this blog post, and here, here and here and...
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5 Money-Saving Ways to Grow Your Small Business
It's frustrating: you read all these articles telling you to invest in this software or that conference to grow your business, but the fact is: you simply don't have the budget to put back into your...
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Not Sure Where to Start? Here's How to Find an Idea and Start Your Business
This post was originally published on Unsettle.org Does this sound familiar? You want to start a side business or become a solopreneur, but you don't know what you're interested in. You want to "follow...
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Zurich Got it Right: Data Based Design
Everyone seems to either want to emulate Google's offices, or rip them apart. The truth is, what is great about Google's offices doesn't work for everyone. This exemplifies a major challenge that the...
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Should Your Dog Go to Work?
A dog downgrades your life on many, many levels. They chew, throw up, shed, harbor pestilence, track mud and poop, skid their butts across carpets and bark loudly during your webinars. You should bring...
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Will the On-Demand Economy Raise Global Living Standards?
The global workforce has begun a significant transition away from full-time salaried jobs and towards a variety of flexible forms of employment, independent businesses of one, freelance work, and other...
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Creating Your Culture: Are You Baking Cookies or Developing Your Secret Sauce?
Wouldn't it be great if the process of building and sustaining a strong, vibrant culture was an easy-to-follow recipe or even just popping the ingredients out of a can--like baking cookies? The...
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Women in Business Q&A: Edie Lutnick, Co-Founder and President, The Cantor...
Edie Lutnick is a Co-Founder and President of The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, a 501 (c) 3 not for profit charity established September 14, 2001 to address the short and long term needs of victims of...
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Don't Wait Until 2016 to Make a Credit Resolution
I get a lot of puzzled looks when I start wishing people Happy New Year after Labor Day -- 2016 is four months away, after all. While the Jewish New Year is in two weeks, I'm not talking about that,...
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After Iran Deal, U.S. Needs to Reassure Arabs Over 'Pax Iranica'
Although both sides publicly sidestepped the issue during the recent Washington visit by Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, it is clear that Arab governments do not share the Obama...
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What Happened to My Bed Bath & Beyond Order?
Ralph Campbell's online order with Bed Bath & Beyond is missing in action. Why won't anyone help him?Question: I tried to place an order on Bed Bath & Beyond's website and it wouldn't go...
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Thrilling Thursday: The Wild Market Ride Continues
We're in cash, so we don't care.That's right, remember how we cashed out last week and how we had those disaster hedges in Friday morning's post? Turns out that was kind of a good idea as the market...
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