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Archive for July 14th, 2009

Captains of the Good Ship Patna

Will we allow ourselves to be pushed into the role of Captain of our good ship SS Patna? Will we be convinced that our own SS Patna, our community or business or economy or country, is too creaky to survive the coming storm the mainstream media paints as ever darker, ever darker, oh the horror?
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Tuesday, July 14th

Wringing More Cash from Your Small Business

Sometime it pays to leave no stone unturned when you are trying to find ways to preserve cash – especially with the stiff challenges facing so many small and mid-sized businesses in the current downturn.
Robert Chalfin, Wharton lecturer, offers the following tips you may not have considered:
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Tuesday, July 14th

Curiosity, Imagination And Failure: The New Big Three

n with the new; out with the old.
There’s a new Big Three driving our economy now. They are Curiosity, Imagination and Failure.
The demise of the former Big Three (Chrysler, Ford and GM) was as inevitable as the fall of empires and the rise of the sun. Mature corporations in mature markets seek to maximize profits [...]

Tuesday, July 14th