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

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business

An important new study , published in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that climate change will be expensive. These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period?

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

Harvard Business

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).

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Huge Capital Raising Effort at Spanish Bank Passing Latest Stress Test; New Game in Town; Smell Test Failure

MishTalk

Draghize : "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is. The Wall Street Journal posted a table of Participating Banks With a Shortfall.

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

MishTalk

A Financial Times analysis of the full banking union resolution process for a lender operating in three countries reveals the labyrinthine procedure that would still be required to wind up a bank. 12 and seen by The Wall Street Journal, was described by German officials as reiterating Berlin''s concerns expressed in recent talks.

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