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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Indeed, a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that fifteen percent of companies offer a 32-hour workweek. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Isnt also true that providing funds to the sick banks also insures they dont go under? Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: FHA Swamped By Defaults.

MishTalk

According to Ligon, the only way the FHA can avoid a bailout is to reduce its market share by lowering maximum loan limits to $325,000 over the next four years, raise credit requirements for borrowers, and institute “burden sharing” with loan originators by reducing insurance coverage from the current 100 percent to 50 percent by 2016.

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Back in the Saddle, Just in the Nick of Time

MishTalk

Ally, whose defunct GMAC Mortgage unit was one of the biggest lenders of subprime mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 housing bust, will inch back into direct home loan originations next year, the bank’s Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Brown said this week at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. financial conference in New York. "I

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

MishTalk

It’s very easy for a confident-sounding analyst, fund manager or professor to say something on TV that can throw off the best laid plans of investors. If there was ever a time when monetary insurance was needed, it is today. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140).

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. Then it wasn’t.

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Laughable Eurozone Banking "Non-Union"; Expect Disorderly Breakup

MishTalk

A big bank collapse would dwarf the available resources; some €473bn of capital has been pumped into EU banks since 2008. He notes that the ECB will end up as "supervisor" of 128 banks with an aggregate balance sheet "somewhere between €26 trillion and €27 trillion." Will the banking union cover all eurozone banks?

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