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Small Business Strategies & Ideas That Work. 45010-Outlook2014_Feb_0.pdf. Bitcoin Services Integration. New Found Moolah. New Busyness. Keeping US AllTogether. Employment: Defending jobs. Cooperatives, Nonprofits. Santa's real workshop: the town in China that makes the world's Christmas decorations. There’s red on the ceiling and red on the floor, red dripping from the window sills and red globules splattered across the walls.

Santa's real workshop: the town in China that makes the world's Christmas decorations

Amazon Not as Unstoppable as It Might Appear - NYTimes.com. Photo.

Amazon Not as Unstoppable as It Might Appear - NYTimes.com

Internet Marketing Software: SEO, PPC, Social - Raven. Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations — Ceres. Amid growing evidence that climate change is having wide-ranging global impacts that will worsen in the years ahead, Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations, ranks the nation's 330 largest insurance companies on what they are saying and doing to respond to escalating climate risks.

Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations — Ceres

Amid growing evidence that climate change is having wide-ranging global impacts that will worsen in the years ahead, Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations, ranks the nation's 330 largest insurance companies on what they are saying and doing to respond to escalating climate risks. The report found strong leadership among fewer than a dozen companies but generally poor responses among the vast majority. Insurance Industry Shows 'Profound Lack Of Preparedness' For Climate Risks. By Ari Phillips Posted on Share this: "Insurance Industry Shows ‘Profound Lack Of Preparedness’ For Climate Risks"

Insurance Industry Shows 'Profound Lack Of Preparedness' For Climate Risks

Companies that Practice "Conscious Capitalism" Perform 10x Better - Tony Schwartz. Remaking the industrial economy. Visualize, for a moment, the industrial economy as a massive system of conveyor belts—one that directs materials and energy from resource-rich countries to manufacturing powerhouses, such as China, and then spirits the resulting products onward to the United States, Europe, and other destinations, where they are used, discarded, and replaced.

Remaking the industrial economy

While this image is an exaggeration, it does capture the essence of the linear, one-way production model that has dominated global manufacturing since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Increasingly, however, the linear approach to industrialization has come under strain. Some three billion consumers from the developing world will enter the middle class by 2030.

Some thoughts on economics. From Peter Radford My instinctive entry point into economics is through business.

Some thoughts on economics

What is called the “Theory of the Firm” plays a key role in shaping what I see, think, and try to explain. Helping employees embrace change. When it comes to making big changes in an organization—implementing a Six Sigma program, optimizing business processes, adopting a new sales strategy—executives know that the wild card in the pack is their employees’ capacity to adapt to a new order.

Helping employees embrace change

Although the hoped-for benefits of a major initiative can shrink dramatically if employees misunderstand or resist it, success or failure depends as much on how the change is made as on the project itself. Fortunately, when companies attempt to change, a little improvement goes a long way. Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager. Portrait robot de l'entreprise du futur: durable dans l'instable. Cet article est le premier d’une série dont la publication s’étalera sur plusieurs mois.

Portrait robot de l'entreprise du futur: durable dans l'instable

The Truth About Company Policy. Le cas Wal-Mart, ou comment gagner la bataille de l'efficacité énergétique. Les constructeurs automobiles ont été très tôt sensibles aux questions d’aérodynamique : la Rumpler allemande et la Chrysler Airflow s’inspiraient par exemple des ailes d’avion et par la suite l’industrie automobile a bénéficié des progrès réalisés par l’aéronautique.

Le cas Wal-Mart, ou comment gagner la bataille de l'efficacité énergétique

Mais l’enjeu principal était la vitesse. Ce n’est que depuis les chocs pétroliers que l’efficacité énergétique a commencé à entrer en ligne de compte, bien davantage en Europe qu’aux Etats-Unis, et bien davantage pour les véhicules de tourisme que pour les camions. La donne est en train de changer : l’efficacité énergétique des flottes de camions est à l’ordre du jour. Cela tient notamment à deux enjeux. Le premier est climatique. Aux Etats-Unis, un pays où a longtemps régné la gabegie en matière de consommation de carburant, le virage a été pris de manière très vigoureuse. Welcome to the Garage: Microsoft’s after-hours idea factory. By Jennifer Warnick Imagine, if you will, a cold Sunday evening.

Welcome to the Garage: Microsoft’s after-hours idea factory

You’ve popped the popcorn, nestled on the couch, and queued up your favorite nature documentary. Google Reveals Its 9 Principles of Innovation. Ever wonder what makes the Google the holy grail of productivity and creativity? There's no magic in the drinking water at the Mountain View, CA company. The tech giant draws from what Google's chief social evangelist, Gopi Kallayil, calls the nine core principles of innovation. Starting a New Business. A Climate of Corporate Control (2012) Assessing Trade and Business Groups' Positions on Climate Change. Tricks-of-the-trade. Tricks-of-the-trade-methodology.

Tricks of the Trade (2014) WorkIntelligent.ly - Inspired by Ricoh. Six High-Paying Jobs On The Rise. By Jennifer Berry Work makes up a big part of most of our adult lives, so why not find a job that can compensate you well for your efforts? According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are a good variety of growing careers whose median annual salaries reportedly pay $75K or more. These careers span all kinds of industries, from health to information technology to construction, but they have one thing in common. Discover A Better Way of Working. Chic CEO Mastermind. Join the Chic CEO Mastermind What is a Mastermind? The concept of mastermind was developed by Napolean Hill, the famous author of Think and Grow Rich. Mr. Careergasm - Career Coach Torontocareergasm.

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know. A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. Why Don't We Measure The Productivity Of Leaders? The 3 Critical Questions Every Company Should Ask. WalMartReport-May2013. The Economics of Evil Google. Updated below. The Bulletproof Executive — The State of High Performance.

Www.Onlineidcalculator.com. According to regular HTML validation errors in HTML on www.onlineidcalculator.com were fluctuating between 50 (minimum) and 270 (maximum) during the last year. Why is this information so valuable? Search engines love valid HTML documents because of the simple reason that "it makes their job easier". For example if you don’t close some tags or if you simply don’t deliver HTML in orderly fashion, it makes the parsing process of your HTML document harder, which draws additional resources from the search engine. Therefore, search engines tend to favour documents that contain 100% valid HTML. Online ID Calculator - make sense of your Google results. The 20 Most Expensive Google AdWords — And How to Compete Against Them. Why Obama Is Right To Call Out The Carried Interest Loophole (Again) Why Corporations Are Psychotic. Observatoire sur la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises. Rebalancing asset classes and subcategories.

Research Affiliates' CIO On Why We Don't Rebalance. Why We Don't Rebalance.