R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Are we a nation of zombies?
March 14, 2014
James Adonis is one of Australia’s best-known people-management thinkers
Walk through most workplaces and what you’re bound to see is sameness. Dull and robotic sameness – people forfeiting their identity to fit in with the corporate world. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
The app 28 million fitness freaks use
March 18, 2014
Doug Hendrie
It’s connecting some of society’s most competitive people.
Jason Jacobs has always taken fitness seriously. But it wasn’t until he was training for his first marathon in 2007 that the Boston entrepreneur discovered something was missing: data. What was his rate of progress? Would he be fit enough in time for the whistle? That’s when he knew he’d found it: the important problem he wanted to solve. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
| Dear Friends and All,
Emergence of Mittelstand Compounders in Asia? The Case of PT Selamat Sempurna
It was a busy day on March 11 at the grave of a hero in Blitar, a city located right at the foot of the explosive Mount Kelud, and 167 kilometers from the East Java capital of Surabaya city, Indonesia. Megawati, daughter of Indonesia’s first president Soekarno, and Jakarta’s governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo went together to visit Soekarno’s grave to pay their respects to the independence fighter of the world’s third biggest democracy with a trillion in GDP, or the near-equivalent of South Korea or China’s Guangdong province. Two days later on March 13, Megawati announced Jokowi, the furniture-seller who first became the mayor of the ancient Javanese city of Solo and later Jakarta, as the party’s presidential candidate for the July 9 elections. Read more of this post |
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
THE ART OF SELF-PROMOTION: 6 TIPS FOR GETTING YOUR WORK DISCOVERED
Writer and author Austin Kleon shares some guidelines for promoting your work without spamming from his new book, Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.
The subtitle of the writer and artist Austin Kleon’s new book, Show Your Work!, is “10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.” But that subtitle could just as easily be, “How to Self-promote Without Being a Jerkface.” It’s an incredibly useful and compulsively readable short book about how to use social media and networking if you’re a creative person of any stripe. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Art of Accounting: Be a Sounding Board to Your Clients
MARCH 14, 2014
BY EDWARD MENDLOWITZ
Entrepreneurs are the brightest, most focused and determined people I know. But it is also lonely for many of them.
There are few people they can trust, and sometimes they just need a sounding board of someone who won’t pass judgment but might point out inconsistencies or illogical conclusions. That is a role for CPAs, and sometimes great things come out of it. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
The Apple of the Pearl River Delta? DJI Innovations is taking flight
Monday, 02 December, 2013, 5:23am
Darren Wee darren.wee@scmp.com
DJI Innovations founder Frank Wang Tao (left) shows off his products with his mentor Professor Li Zexiang. Photo: SCMP
DJI Innovations has 900 employees and is set to generate revenue of US$131m this year Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Is ‘Smart Beta’ an Improvement Over Standard Indexing?
March 16, 2014 8:35 p.m. ET
Investors have been rushing to sink cash into a new option that’s intended to deliver a souped-up version of traditional index tracking. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Alzheimer’s and Its Uncounted Victims
Deaths from the disease may be six times higher than reported. This is a cancer-size illness.
GEORGE VRADENBURG And STANLEY PRUSINER
March 16, 2014 6:40 p.m. ET
It’s well known that President Ronald Reagan died in 2004 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Yet his death certificate listed pneumonia as the official cause of death. Attributing Alzheimer deaths to other diseases is all too common—and highlights the complicated nature of Alzheimer’s contribution to deaths in the U.S. each year. It also suggests that Alzheimer’s might be a bigger problem than previously thought. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Don’t Celebrate Mexico’s Reforms Just Yet
Deficit spending is heading higher and the rule of law remains weak.
MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
March 16, 2014 6:38 p.m. ET
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President Enrique Peña Nieto has been in office a mere 16 months, but his leadership has already changed the country’s international image. Constitutional reforms in energy, education and telecommunications, once thought to be impossible, have removed roadblocks to new legislation that could increase competitiveness and drive faster growth. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Alibaba: A Mix of Amazon, eBay and PayPal With a Dash of Google
How the Chinese Company Came to Dominate Chinese E-Commerce
JURO OSAWA
Updated March 15, 2014 4:53 a.m. ET
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.— which is preparing to launch perhaps the largest U.S. stock listing ever of a Chinese company—dominates China’s e-commerce market. But not everybody in the U.S. has a grasp of its scope. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
How to find the right co-founder: Right Click Capital’s Benjamin Chong
Published 17 March 2014 13:29, Updated 17 March 2014 13:40
Benjamin Chong
Building a startup requires hard work and perseverance. It’s difficult to do it alone and something, I suggest, you shouldn’t do alone. You need a cofounder with whom you can share the ups and downs of starting a business. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Five Stinkin’ Feet
Posted on March 14, 2014
Robert Seawright
Investment Belief #5: Process Should Be Prioritized Over Outcomes
My first baseball memory is from October 16, 1962, the day after my sixth birthday, by which time I was already hooked on what was then the National Pastime. In those days, all World Series games were played during the day. So I hurried home from school on that Tuesday afternoon to turn on the (black-and-white) television and catch what I could of the seventh and deciding game of a great Series at the then-new Candlestick Park in San Francisco between the Giants and the New York Yankees. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
THE REMARKABLE RETURN OF MV AGUSTA
ARTICLE | 14 MARCH, 2014 03:27 PM | BY JEREMY HAZLEHURST
It would be an exaggeration to say that Giovanni Castiglioni was born riding a motorbike, but only just. He got his first pushbike at the age of two and his first engine-powered bike when he was four. Now aged just 33, he is the CEO of MV Agusta, a legendary racing marque which he has turned from a moribund relic into a thriving concern. Just 18 months after his family re-took control of the business, sales have increased by 300% and are on an upward trend. Many have tried to revive MV Agusta, and all have failed – including Harley Davidson and Giovanni’s father Claudio. Many thought it was a poisoned chalice. But now it is winning a whole new generation of fans, and when Castiglioni talks about an IPO that would rival Ducati’s, he is taken seriously. How did he do it? And why? Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Eslite Groups forecasts at least 7.7% revenue growth in 2014
CNA
March 17, 2014, 12:04 am TWN
TAIPEI–The operator of Taiwan’s popular Eslite Bookstore (誠品書店) chain predicts revenues will grow to over NT$14 billion (US$461.34 million) this year, a company executive said. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Growth with harmony
Imogene Wong and Janis Cheung
Monday, March 17, 2014
Poman Lo Po-man has never been daddy’s rich little girl despite being born with a silver spoon in her mouth. As an industrious student she passed all her exams with flying colors. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
(Flight MH370) What is Malaysia hiding, Beijing ponders
(4 mins ago)
Malaysia drew further criticism from China over conflicting information on the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 today. State media and social media users voiced increasing scepticism as the search entered its 10th day.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday announced that the disappearance may have been a “deliberate act” and that the Boeing 777 flew for several hours after leaving its intended flight path, AFP reports. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Superannuation ‘merger zone’ sucks in tiddlers
March 17, 2014
Australia’s industry and government superannuation funds are facing growing pressure to merge, as greater competition and government reforms put pressure on smaller funds. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Stay away from new media stocks, say fund managers
March 17, 2014 – 2:14PM
Fund managers are shifting money away from new media stocks such as Seek, Carsales.com and REA Group with rapid share growth pushing valuations too high for comfort. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
‘Smart manufacturing’: Australian company to produce US defence force technology
March 17, 2014 – 10:18AM
A glimmer of hope is shining in Australia’s ambition to become a world leader in ‘smart manufacturing’, with a Melbourne company winning approval from US military leaders to produce defence force technology. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
How America’s low-wage workers are struggling to join the middle class
Josh Boak, Associated Press | March 15, 2014 7:30 AM ET
WASHINGTON — For years, many Americans followed a simple career path: Land an entry-level job. Accept a modest wage. Gain skills. Leave eventually for a better-paying job. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
In doubling yuan trading band, China aggravates foreign investor concerns
6:51pm EDT
By Pete Sweeney
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese central bank’s decision to relax its grip on the yuan has been welcomed as a sign of financial liberalization, but it is aggravating concerns among foreign executives and investors about their exposure to China in the near term. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
25 Books That Will Blow Your Mind
PAIGE COOPERSTEIN THE LIFE MAR. 16, 2014, 8:37 PM
Sometimes a book is so good, it not only sticks with you long after you put it down, but it alters the way you view the world going forward. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
This Is What Bill Gates Thinks When People Say: ‘You Should Feel Guilty About Being So Wealthy’
JULIE BORT TECH MAR. 15, 2014, 11:57 PM
Bill Gates has been the richest man in the world for the better part of two decades, andhe’s getting richer all the time.
People tell him that he should feel guilty about it, he said in an interview with the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Companies look to teenage girls for product ideas
KYODO
MAR 15, 2014
Teenage girls around the country, often regarded as trendsetters with a strong word-of-mouth network, are increasingly becoming a reliable source of ideas for developing and marketing products in the corporate world. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Good and bad, for better or worse
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES
MAR 16, 2014
One approach to acquiring new vocabulary that I’ve always found effective is to seek out the 反対語 (hantai-go, antonyms) of words. To prove my point, how about looking at words that relate to “good” and “bad,” which are about as opposite as you can get. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
2014-03-03 17:12
Dissecting the ‘Korea discount’
By Andrew Salmon
Ah, the ups and downs of a journalist’s life. Having been a hack for over a decade, I have experienced more than a few of the downs. Sources agree to speak ― then change their minds. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
2014-03-16 13:26
Does Korea have global talent?
Lee Dong-geun
Last month, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and 11 foreign chambers of commerce in Korea co-hosted the sixth-annual Global Career Forum. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Start-Ups Aim to Conquer Space Market
By QUENTIN HARDY and NICK BILTONMARCH 16, 2014
Planet Labs, a San Francisco aerospace start-up, is launching 100 of its small satellites into orbit this year where they will image the Earth every single day. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Supermarket shareholders braced for margins to hit historic lows
Investors call for Tesco to aggressively cut prices after market share hits 10-year low
Morrisons is to invest £1bn in prices over the next three years, with Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s expected to respond Photo: ALAMY
9:30PM GMT 15 Mar 2014
The biggest institutional investors in Britain’s supermarkets are bracing themselves for profit margins to hit historic lows after struggling Morrisons declared a price war to try to halt a decline in sales. Read more of this post
March 21, 2014 Leave a comment
Want to crack China’s cereal market? Try Weetabix with green-tea tang
Now it is majority-owned by a Chinese food giant, the UK’s second-largest cereal maker has a very special export opportunity
Bear facts: Weetabix boss Giles Turrell wants to modify the iconic cereal’s flavour for the Chinese market, along with Alpen
7:30PM GMT 16 Mar 2014
Who would try to sell Weetabix to the Chinese? To a nation whose preferred breakfast is hot, savoury and usually includes rice, a couple of milk-sodden, wheaty lumps all the way from Kettering might scarcely seem appetising. Read more of this post
咬定青山不放松，立根原在破岩中。 千磨万击还坚劲，任尔东西南北风。
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