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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. In addition, productivity increases in the sector outpaced wage increases. With just 2.6 trillion in 2016.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Yellen Yap: Dollar Briefly Takes Out March High, Surging to Level Last Seen March 2003; For What It's Worth

MishTalk

As Fed Chair Janet Yellen yapped about the strength of the US economy in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington , the US dollar index briefly surged above a level set in March, to a high last seen in April of 2003. The last time the dollar touched as high as it did today was in March of 2003. exports over the past year.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. Like me, you may have first learned about this company from their marketing campaign: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". References. BASF at a glance.

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors.

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Seth's Blog: Levels of marketing magic, the placebo effects of desire

Seth Godin Blog

Seths Blog.Seth Godins riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread. All Marketers Are Liars Blog. All Marketers Tell Stories. All Marketers Tell Stories. Seths most important book about the art of marketing. Permission Marketing. Essential reading about remarkable products and services.

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McDonald's Vows Fresh Thinking After Net Income Declines 30%; Mish Offers Some Advice

MishTalk

It is struggling with weak sales in Asia, Europe and, most important, its home market in the U.S. same-store sales performance since February 2003. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. In the U.S., decline in McDonald’s September U.S.

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