http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf The Los Alamos wildfare is making headlines as concerns rise about damage to the nuclear lab. Wildfires are more predictable (brush,dry,summer) than earthquakes as in Fukushima,Japan.The question that the rest of the world is asking is if Americans and Japanese are scrambling to deal with natural disasters and nuclerar installations then what aboutContinue reading “Dealing with nuclear power risks”
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry
Here are the numbers of the three industries reported on CBS: Music Industry $6.9 Billion Movie Industry $ 10.6 Billion Video Game Industry $23 Billion In fact it is one industry that has booming employment in Texas as people take to video games to escape from thoughts of the slow economy. But frankly, the numbersContinue reading “Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry”
Leadership is futile if you are not willing to manage for outcomes
This blog always had a combined section on Leadership and Management and I am glad that it did when I read True Leaders Are Also Managers by Robert Sutton. For some reason leadership is equated to a grand "vision" of "doing the right thing" and management is seen as the more mundane "trenches" where implementationContinue reading “Leadership is futile if you are not willing to manage for outcomes”
US Jobs McKinsey : more management work from “soup to nuts” ?
More management work from soup to nuts even- if you know only soup making best- seems to be the signal from the US job market. For example, companies are not willing to pay separately for project management when they outsource IT and similarly in-house the workfrorce from R&D to Marketing and Sales,Supply Chain and EngineeringContinue reading “US Jobs McKinsey : more management work from “soup to nuts” ?”
Dealing with your internal organization takes too much time and energy for B2B marketers and Supply Chain Managers
Just dealing with internal folks, including your boss, takes up a whole lot of time and energy for B2B marketers and Supply Chain managers. Being folks that are at the boundary of the organization and facing outside you should be spending between 70-80% of your time with the customers or thinking about how toContinue reading “Dealing with your internal organization takes too much time and energy for B2B marketers and Supply Chain Managers”
New ICANN rules might allow interesting distributor websites for major brands
Unless you have $185,000 to spend on a ".yourname" the news that ICANN will allow any legitimate brand owner to get a ".yourname" suffix will not help very much. Unless of course you are a dealer for a major brand like say Ford motors. Then if the brand owner and distributor can work out theContinue reading “New ICANN rules might allow interesting distributor websites for major brands”
Congratulations to Big Blue IBM for 100 years of constantly reinventing itself
At a time when American businesses feel vulnerable its time to reflect on some personal recollections about IBM over the years, some of which are being recounted fondly today, 100 years of IBM. A culture that is shared and if you don't join in as an employee you are ejected pretty early . Sounds toughContinue reading “Congratulations to Big Blue IBM for 100 years of constantly reinventing itself”
New opportunity for roofers as Google invests $280 million in residential solar
The great thing about the weather folks is that they are able to predict sunshine better than oil folks can predict oil and gas. And Google's investment of $280 million in residential solar with Solar City seems to be a great move and a new opportunity for those in the roofing related installation business whoContinue reading “New opportunity for roofers as Google invests $280 million in residential solar”
Privacy: from Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks and transparent Airbus in 2050
From yesterday the Pentagon Papers relating to the Vietnam war can be downloaded. At the time in 1971 the whole "leak"thing was an international scandal that lasted for years. Flash foward to Wikileaks 40 years later and the world media has lost interest and there is public protest in support of the alleged culprit PrivateContinue reading “Privacy: from Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks and transparent Airbus in 2050”
US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end
Rana Faroohar of Time discusses the 5 myths of the economic recovery. And a variety of folks have been talking about some of these issues for a long time, notably Thomas Friedman in his The World is Flat that in part, inspired the start of this blog. It's becoming clearer there are only two endsContinue reading “US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end”