EDUCATION DRIVES ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
While strengthening our education might do little to avert our current economic crisis (it will help if for no other reason than injection of cash in to economy and confidence building among the students) it is essential for long term competitiveness of the American economy.
We are rapidly moving to a world, where ideas [...]
Strengthening the educational pipeline, the way to fix our economy
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Economics · Education · Innovation · Local Impact
Why Network Marketing isn’t
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I keep hearing people refer to Multi-Level Marketing as network marketing. Nothing could be further from the truth. MLMs are by their nature a pyramid that pushes one product through the system. At best it is a hierarchy marketing.
Real networks involve multiple interconnected nodes, not a strict hierarchy of upline and downline. When multiple nodes [...]
Tags: 5. Expanding Market
The actions Harley must take to avoid the fate of GM
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
As a resident of Menomonee Falls, the place where first Harley was built, I am distraught by the realization that today Harley-Davidson is on the course charted by GM and may well suffer GM’s fate, 10-15 years from now if something is not done soon.
Here is a list of actions that Harley-Davidson should take as [...]
Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · Economics · Local Impact
Another way to foster entrerpreneurship
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
One of the ways in which the government can foster entrepreneurship is by extending the unemployment benefits to anyone in the early stages of business development. Being able to pay the bills during first six months in business would not just reduce business failure rate, but encourage more people to take a stab at it. [...]
Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management
Humans are not Resources
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
I cannot wait for the day when the last company that has a Human Resource department goes out of business. Humans are not Resources, they are not Assets, they are not something to have, possess or exploit. The very fact that the departments that are tasked with the recruiting and development of workforce are called Human [...]
Tags: 2. Engaged Manpower