É mais fácil fazer negócios na Etiópia do que no Brasil, aponta relatório do Banco Mundial
Fazer negócios no Brasil ficou mais difícil, principalmente para as pequenas e médias empresas. É o que aponta o relatório Doing Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises. O país caiu da 126º colocação no ranking anterior, para 130º, em uma relação de 185 países. Os países da América Latina que melhor se destacaram foram Chile (37º), Porto Rico (41º), Peru (43º), Colômbia (45º) e México (48º). O destaque do estudo ficou por conta das nações europeias: a Polônia saiu de 59º lugar para 55º ao implementar quatro reformas estruturais, tornando mais fácil o registro de propriedade, pagamento de impostos, aplicação dos contratos e a resolução de falências. O Brasil implementou três "boas práticas": tornou mais fácil a concessão de crédito, protegeu melhor os investidores e facilitou a aplicação dos contratos.
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The Soft Skills of Global Managers
While top performance usually is what gets global managers their international assignments, soft skills may be more important. An excerpt from Harvard Management Update. by Glenn Rifkin Despite nearly two decades of corporate globalization efforts, many organizations still struggle to find managers who are comfortable and effective in the increasingly global economy. Though a few insightful corporate giants such as General Electric, Cisco Systems, and Intel have made strides in developing successful global managers, many human resources leaders and senior executives continue to be frustrated with the available skills and resources. But why is it so difficult to develop effective global managers? But even so, there are steps companies and managers can take to better prepare for the challenges of managing globally. "Managing in a global environment means you manage people who are separated not only by time and distance but also by cultural, social, and language differences," says S.
World's richest cities by purchasing power
If you think your mayor is among the best in the world, nominate him or her now for the 2014 World Mayor Prize World Mayor 2014: Best mayors wanted The City Mayors Foundation invites you to nominate a candidate for the 2014 World Mayor Prize. The Prize is awarded every two years to a mayor who has made outstanding contributions to his / her community and has developed a vision for urban living and working that is relevant to towns and cities across the world. Previous winners and runners-up include the mayors of Bilbao, Perth, Mexico City, Oklahoma City, Cape Town, Zurich, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Athens, Mississauga and Tirana. During the first round, suitable candidates may be suggested until the middle of May 2014. Please nominate your candidate for World Mayor 2014 now.
eFront Learning: Royalty Free Music for eLearning
Recently a fellow member of the Instructional Design & E-Learning Professionals’ Group (14K+ of members) asked “If anyone know of where to find royalty free background music for training?“ As you can understand this question was the inspiration for the following list that contains Royalty Free Music websites for eLearning. Enjoy!=> I will very much appreciate if you share with the eLearning community a website that offers royalty free music for eLearning and is not in the following list. =>I will add your resource to the Top of the list with a link to your profile! Royalty Free Music Library is proud to offer one of the largest offerings of online broadcast-quality royalty free music anywhere on the web. Brainy Betty offers sound files that are perfect to insert into PowerPoint for many uses. LifeSounds works on the integration of music throughout the curriculum. Stock Music Boutique library offers high quality royalty-free production music.
NetLogo Home Page
NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge. You can also try it online through NetLogo Web. What can you do with NetLogo? Join mailing lists here. Download NetLogo Go to NetLogo Web NetLogo comes with a large library of sample models.
4 Pillars of Marketing Automation Success – Expert Guest Blog :: Zephyr 47 | Marketing Automation, Demand Generation, Content Marketing
Ed. Note: We are honored with the latest in our Zephyr 47 Expert Guest Blog series that delivers fantastic content on marketing automation, customer marketing, public relations, and content marketing. Josh Stailey is our latest contributor from The Pursuit Group and he delivers practical advice for organizations looking to to succeed with a marketing automation initiative. Josh Stailey is a founder and chief funnel strategist of The Pursuit Group, Inc., an Ohio-based company that provides turnkey Demand Generation services primarily for business-to-business enterprises. Additional content on this subject is available in our latest white paper here. The 4 Pillars to Marketing Automation Success The right foundation can make or break your marketing automation initiative. by Josh Stailey, The Pursuit Group, Inc. To say that marketing automation is a key initiative for many companies this year is an understatement. And that’s not good enough. The Four Pillars of Marketing Automation Success 1.
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11 Brilliant Headlines You Can Steal From The World's Best Selling Magazines
Nothing says “read me now” like a nicely structured compelling headline. Your headlines are the most important piece of your content, so much so that great, useful, inspiring articles can be ignored if they have a crappy title. Our job as bloggers/marketers/writers/content producers is to get our ideas spread across the web. Through this spreading of ideas, our businesses, products and services can be exposed to hundreds and thousands of people. But that won’t happen if you don’t get your content read; and that’s what I’m here to show you how to do today. How Magazines Make Money… The first way magazines make money is by allowing advertisers to use their unused space and charge them thousands of dollars. The second way is through subscriptions. They wouldn’t be able to sell their advertising space if thousands of people weren’t picking up a copy of the magazine. …and how do they do that? The 11 Brilliant Headlines You Can Steal.. This should be fun… let’s get started! 1. Template: Oops! 2. 4.
