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Unveiling the Value of Your Expertise


All of us have knowledge, expertise, and experience that others can benefit from. This is one of the reasons we play some of the roles in life that we play: leader, trainer, teacher, coach, mentor, and more.

Can A Business Still Be Profitable When People Skills Are Absent?


In our current world of rapid and amazing technological advances, many entrepreneurs have managed to dramatically limit the need for staff in highly profitable operations of all kinds. It is therefore tempting and believable to imagine that with every passing day, the need for people skills is diminishing.

Smart Hiring: What Makes the Right Employee?


Good hires do not happen by accident or luck. In this economy, employers are finding a large pool of available workers.

Creativity and Innovation Management ? Hierarchies


Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation. There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.

Challenge of ERP Implementation: Q and A with Rick Maurer


Question: ERPs seem like a good idea, so why is return on investment so low? Answer: Resistance often kills many of these new systems. Even though the promise of what an ERP can do is high, the planners often fail to look at how the users are likely to view this "improvement.

He Hate Me: Turning Their Bad Attitude Into Your Great Results


'He Hate Me' was the nickname of Rod Smart, a leading rusher in 2002 for the Las Vegas Outlaws of the now defunct XFL pro football league. Looking for an edge, the XFL allowed players to put nicknames on their uniforms.

Success at Work : People Skills : Dealing with New Ideas


Re-organizing, re-engineering, re-training, down-sizing, outsourcing, changing-changing-changing. Organizations today think they need to be constantly changing or they will perish.

Business Innovation ? Improvisation


Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation. There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.

Offshore This! (Outsourcing Tech Support Overseas)


So I call my telephone company and someone picks up 15,000 miles away. I asked the rep where she's from.

Empowering Others - Giving Them Some Control


It's been a pretty good weekend around the place - not done a lot, but I have done what I've wanted to do - and that makes the difference. I changed my role when I first left the employed world.

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Report: Obama to tap Yellen to be Fed vice chair (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported.



Obama to tap Yellen for Fed vice chair: source (Reuters)

The US Federal Reserve Building is seen from the air over Washington, DC. The US economy continued to expand modestly on the back of consumer spending but the labor market remained bleak, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book report Wednesday.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar with the process said on Thursday.



U.S. "very close" to job growth: Summers (Reuters)
Reuters - White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Thursday that the United States is "very close" to the point where job growth can begin. (Reporting by Chris Baltimore; editing by Carol Bishopric)
Regulators shut LibertyPointe Bank in NYC (AP)
AP - Regulators on Thursday shut down LibertyPointe Bank in New York City, boosting to 27 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year following the 140 brought down in 2009 by mounting loan defaults and the recession.
US criticizes China's domestic, economic policies (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens' rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power.



Slowly, Americans are regaining their lost wealth (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2009 file photo, shoppers jam Michigan Ave., as they rush to find last minute deals in Chicago. American households saw their wealth increase at the end of last year, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios.(AP Photo/Jim Prisching, file)AP - Americans are recovering their shrunken wealth — gradually. Household net worth rose last quarter, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was slight. And it was less than in the previous two quarters.



Export growth likely to remain bright spot for US (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2009 file photo, imported cars are seen stored in a lot after being offloaded from a ship at Port Hueneme, Calif. The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly shrank in January, 2010, reflecting a big drop in imports of oil and foreign cars.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)AP - U.S. exports dipped in January, the government said Thursday, but economists weren't fazed. They predict export growth will be a bright spot for American manufacturers through the rest of 2010.



Obama lobbied on black unemployment, immigration (Reuters)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line.



US household wealth jumps for first time since recession (AFP)

The US Federal Reserve Building in Washington, DC. American household wealth jumped in 2009 for the first time since a brutal recession struck the country, underscoring the impact of an economic recovery, data from the central bank showed Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win McNamee)AFP - American household wealth jumped in 2009 for the first time since a brutal recession struck the country, underscoring the impact of an economic recovery, data from the central bank showed Thursday.



States tap stimulus as more U.S. families seek aid (Reuters)
Reuters - Many states have used funds from the $863 billion U.S. economic stimulus plan to help give a rising number of poor families emergency cash assistance, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday.
A look at global economic developments (AP)
AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday:
Fed emergency loans decline in past week (AP)
AP - Banks borrowed less from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week, providing further evidence that the strains caused by the financial crisis are easing.
AT&T CEO accepts bonus; pay rises to $20.2M (AP)
AP - The frugality of the recession eased in the 2009 pay package for AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson, who resumed taking a bonus and saw his compensation rise by one-third to $20.2 million, according to Associated Press calculations on a regulatory filing Thursday.
Citigroup sees return to sustained profitability (Reuters)

Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit speaks during the opening of a new branch in Hong Kong February 3 2010. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Vikram Pandit told investors on Thursday the bank is on track to return to sustained profitability and losses from some of its worst assets should be manageable if the economy does not deteriorate.



Coca-Cola FEMSA bottler to change bylaws (AP)
AP - Drinks company Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB said Wednesday its bottler, Coca-Cola FEMSA, plans to change its bylaws so a simple majority of its board can appoint and set compensation of the CEO and people who report directly to him or her.
Obama launches export-doubling strategy (AFP)

US President Barack Obama speaks during the the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Obama put into action Thursday an ambitious strategy to double US exports by prising open lucrative emerging markets in a bid to ease unemployment amid fragile economic recovery.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AFP - President Barack Obama put into action Thursday an ambitious strategy to double US exports by prising open lucrative emerging markets in a bid to ease unemployment amid fragile economic recovery.



Summary Box: Trade deficit unexpectedly narrows (AP)
AP - TRADE GAP: The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $37.3 billion in January, a decline of 6.6 percent from December, reflecting a big drop in imports as shipments of foreign oil and autos both declined.
Obama outlines strategy to boost exports (Reuters)

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising reception for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in St. Louis, Missouri, March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama, anxious to spur growth and cut high unemployment, laid out a plan on Thursday to double U.S. exports through tougher enforcement of trade laws, increased government advocacy and more credit assistance for small and medium-sized companies.



Fed seen keeping "extended period" low rate vow (Reuters)
Reuters - Lingering U.S. labor market weakness and nagging doubts about the solidity of the economic recovery are expected to keep the Federal Reserve committed to holding borrowing costs very low for a long time at a monetary policy meeting next week.
Appetite for reform fading: NYSE Euronext CEO (Reuters)
Reuters - The appetite and sense of urgency for world financial reform have waned as markets have rebounded and the world economy has shown signs of recovering, the head of exchange operator NYSE Euronext said on Thursday.
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