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We have an intern working with us. She is getting her MBA. She still has that new car smell on her. By that I mean – she hasn’t become bitter and jaded. She is still full of the possibility that most business problems are easy to fix. If only we applied ourselves. She’s taken to [...]

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Read an interesting blurb in Business Week – no link because I can’t find one. Whatever BW. The article is: Are Your Employees Just Biding Their Time? The first point is that people aren’t quitting their jobs. So that’s good – we haven’t completely lost our minds. People see 17+% total unemployment and think to [...]

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The McKinsey Quarterly had an article back in March of the “New Normal.” I have read this short article several times and recommend you do the same. There is a lot of insight amid the prediction. It is clear that we are not just going through a new boom/bust cycle. As the author says, we [...]

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Continuing with the gaming trend here….The Personal MBA author, Josh Kaufman, posts a list of the business skills/concepts you can learn while playing World of Warcraft. I don’t know about other MMORPGs but WoW has an incredibly rich economic system. By rich I mean that there is a lot to dive into. It is a [...]

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Great post from 37signals that I picked up from Lifehacker.  Great and relevant for a number of reasons. Cash flow is the killer of small business. I would say it is probably the killer of all business but I won’t bog down there. When I was running large technical support programs and developing entry level [...]

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