MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2014

In "Insatiable" the Economist says "The cost of stopping the Russian bear now is high—but it will only get higher if the West does nothing". Mish : What a bunch of one-sided hypocritical nonsense. The US has a drone policy that has killed or injured thousands of innocent victims, including children. One is military.

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MishTalk

MARCH 18, 2014

A pair of articles on USA Today, one by Ron Paul, the other the view of the editorial board of USA Today, proves that even when the facts are laid out, hypocrites remain hypocrites. Residents of Crimea voted over the weekend on whether they would remain an autonomous region of Ukraine or join the Russian Federation.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Security analysts said Taliban forces were determined to regain control of Helmand, a region with which many Taliban leaders have close ties, and where they enjoy considerable popular support. Helmand is a base area for many of the Taliban leaders,” said Ahmed Rashid, the author of several books on Afghanistan, Pakistan and central Asia. “It

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MishTalk

JANUARY 4, 2014

Boeing''s machinists on Friday narrowly approved a crucial labor contract that secured thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity for Washington state but will cost workers their pensions. Our current wages and benefits are less than 5 percent of airplane costs without these concessions.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 6, 2019

As a leader, are you prepared to win the war for the top talent? Employee turnover can impact you with costs in recruiting, pre-departure costs, selection of new team members, onboarding, training and the overall loss of productivity. times the cost of higher level leaders. Do not act on the results.

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MishTalk

MARCH 18, 2014

Philly.Com reports 10 leaders of Ironworkers Local 401 charged in racketeering indictment. FBI agents arrested 10 of the union''s leaders Tuesday morning, including longtime head Joseph Dougherty, in a racketeering conspiracy case that appeared to affirm long-standing business complaints over the tactics employed by Philadelphia unions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At the same time, many of these teams struggle to communicate to leaders the importance of having a well-funded security program. I observed that leaders often treat security as a liability cost — until the company experiences a security breach, after which increased support is a given. Building Trusted Products.

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MishTalk

JUNE 12, 2014

It was the neocon''s number one wet dream at the time. The militants pushed south and appeared to have taken over Tikrit, the home town of Iraq’s executed former leader Saddam Hussein. It employs 15,000 people and cost $750 million to build. But it cost over $1 trillion dollars to get rid of him. Iraq is in ruins.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We overlook one very key piece of the learning puzzle: proactively surrounding ourselves with people who will push us to succeed in unexpected ways and, in so doing, build genuinely rich, purposeful lives of growth, excellence, and impact. One of my Egon Zehnder colleagues and I have done this in more than 30 different parts of the world.

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Harvard Business

MAY 13, 2016

It doesn’t have one center of organization and imagination looking out at the far horizon to inspire and guide all of the component parts to get to a place together that none operating independently could ever get to on its own. This reality makes its gait something like one of the zombies in Walking Dead.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In the 1990s, when Afghanistan was being ravaged by war, a bootstrapped initiative started by a former refugee was able to succeed where multi-million dollar projects funded by governments and large-scale development organizations could not. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. Scale Ideas that Work.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. One crouches above a victim and glances at a display on a cuff wrapped around her wrist, seeing that the patient’s blood pressure has dropped — a sign of hypovolemic shock. Here’s one example. At the site, the EMTs roll out.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

Nine young people and their families filed suit against California’s laws on teacher retention and dismissal, which, they say, protect bad teachers and deprive students of a high-quality education. The Vergara decision came down less than one month after the 60th anniversary of the Brown decision, in which the U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. We surveyed thousands of workers in the U.S. rogue traders in finance).

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. But the reality is the results depend on how people use it, particularly if they can use it to amplify longstanding skills and expertise. And that’s often when organizations run into problems.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 18, 2013

Over 800 are dead according to official reports, thousands dead according to other reports. Credit Default Swaps (CDS) soared to 810, placing Egypt in the top-10 of countries likely to default on sovereign bonds. Borrowing costs rose for the first time in seven weeks at an auction today. The benchmark EGX 30 Index slumped 3.9

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. Instead of saying “yes” or “no” to a project, rate all new initiatives on a scale of 1 to 10. This misuse of talent is rampant in large organizations today.

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MishTalk

JUNE 4, 2015

The maximum weekly dollar amount of payments, $535, which had been among the highest in the nation, was trimmed to a maximum of $350 a week. As a result, tens of thousands of Carolinians left the unemployment rolls. On May 29 Workers' Comp Reform Defeated in Illinois Senate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Here are four things leaders can do. Other times, however, one of those elements is missing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? Appoint a trusted team leader. Filter individuals based on skills, experience, function, geography, reputation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

The ability to make thousands of changes a day to its online retail service has been a key reason Amazon is expanding its online lead over Walmart and other historically “bricks and mortar” retailers. Amazon e-commerce revenue growth was 10 times Walmart’s last year in dollar terms, and 1.5

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The dynamics are simple: Employees have experiences that come from leaders’ conscious and unconscious decisions and behaviors. Zipcar, one of the first ride-sharing services, almost singlehandedly established the “sharing economy” in the United States and paved the way for others in the industry, like Uber and Airbnb.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one. But that focus on short-term profit was short-sighted – even on purely financial terms. It continued to operate in the country, even as international pressure on the Sudanese government mounted. It cost the bank dearly: in 2014, the investigating U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber was wise to use smartphone apps (not telephone calls) to let passengers request vehicles, and it found major cost savings in equipping drivers with standard phones (not specialized hardware). With these savings, Uber seized a huge cost advantage over taxis and traditional car services. But others did this, too.

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MishTalk

APRIL 11, 2015

In response to Readers Question Free Trade; Does Nonreciprocal Free Trade Cost Jobs? And the better you could use one, the more likely you were to arrive at the correct answer. One semester later, skill in using slide rules was rendered totally useless. Paul Krugman "Was" Right! Ken writes.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Publishing your firm’s ideas into professional trade associations and their publications is one of the “holy grails” of marketing. Simply showing these logos on your website will immediately establish trust and credibility with your prospects because they will recognize the big names. Guesting on a Podcast.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

You now have a number (ideally one that’s higher than what you make) and you can use that to evaluate your current salary. Third, it’s a good nudge for your organization and perhaps gives your boss and other leaders additional information too. Kolb says that one way to avoid making threats is to ask questions.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2015

So whether these are soldiers or "dogs of war" (mercenaries), it is a deliberate Western presence in Mariupol. " $100 Bill Near the beginning of the video, there’s a $100 dollar bill (or replica) hanging from the rear view mirror. Azov''s leader, Biletsky, states that he has received recruits from Ireland, Italy, Greece and Scandinavia.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The truth is that some of the problems we face today are simply too big and complex to be solved by any one organization. Every year, tens of thousands of papers are published in scientific journals and any one of them, potentially, could hold the key to the next big thing. The Valley of Death. Killing Ideas Faster.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

When I ask corporate leaders why they are committed to preventing serious injuries and deaths among their workers, most say they care about their employees and don’t want to see anyone hurt. One example of this sticks in my mind. HBR STAFF/CSA Images/BW Archive Collection/Getty Images. In all, four workers were killed.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

” If we had a dollar for every time we’d heard this from an executive we were coaching, we could have retired a long time ago. They are shocked to find themselves scoring so low — even though approximately 30% of all the leaders we’ve studied have at least one fatal flaw. Roman Kharlamov/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Far too many great ideas for solving pressing social problems are not being applied at the scale they deserve, because thousands of nonprofit organizations are teetering on the brink of collapse. Such a portfolio management approach would seem to mitigate the risk of relying too heavily on one or another major source.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Capitalists focus on the financial returns from capital invested, and most business leaders prioritize issues that are financially material. ” The message for business leaders, as for social change agents: To change our frames is to change the way we perceive, prioritize and invest time, effort and money.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Due to the large size of our organization, implementation was challenging and expensive: The process took two years, and the cost at the time was estimated to be around $4 billion. Both efforts failed, costing us close to a billion dollars each time. The decision was made by the health plan and medical group together.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

’s — and the world’s — environmental stewardship, one that the private sector must fill. Some sectors and companies bear more of the up-front expense of tackling carbon emissions, with the energy sector being the most obvious one. Business leaders can choose to send a different signal.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

But it’s important to understand the underlying elements of this debate: one level rests on the heavy use of H-1B visas by outsourcing firms; another rests on the disagreement over whether the program increases companies’ access to scarce skills, or merely helps them minimize costs.

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