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The Broken Finance Industry: Credit, Crisis, Malfeasance and Broken Business Models

The credit crisis of 2007-2008 that metastasized into a collapse and nearly caused Great Depression 2.0 was largely created by broken business models based on bad practices, malfeasance, excess leverage and synthetic, structured investment products. We've all learned the hard way that the Finance Industry is more than just another industry but impacts us all. By looking back, perhaps in anger and certainly in dismay and puzzlement, we can understand more about how this all came to pass. And, as a result, more about what to expect because all of these problems remain with us. If you'd like to get a better understanding of how broke the Industry is and what the consequences are this is a place to start.READ»

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The Right Way to Write an Email and Improve your Image

Mess this up just a couple times and you are on the road to a poor business image. Don't become a victim, use these five simple steps to protect your reputation...READ»

Data Center Cost Avoidance

Last week in the New York Times, Steve Lohr wrote an article, In Tough Times, Build Fewer Data Centers. He makes a compelling case that “The smartest, greenest, most efficient data center is the one that a company decides it ...READ»

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The Reputation Green IT Doesn’t Deserve

Green IT is suffering from a disconnect. Although people say they are pro-environment and will look for this in their products, in reality their spending behavior paints a different picture.READ»

Video Resumes - Yes or No

I have been doing quite a bit of reading on Video resumes.  I had a digital media client and we were moving to accept only video resumes for our talent positions.  In researching this topic I can tell that the HR world is really ...READ»

Does HR have to be a necessary evil?

The other day I was attending a business event on a beautiful summer day.  The speaker was a lovely, earnest, young HR Professional who was frightening the group with stories of employee relations issues gone badly.  There were ...READ»

Perfect Storm Forming for Green IT

Once we dispel the common misconception that Green IT, the practice of environmentally sound practices in the Information Technology field, is an altruistic pursuit alone and not grounded within the constraints of capitalism, we ...READ»

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Hilbert Problems: Fundamental Performance Questions for Business

In the early part of the last century David Hilbert proposed a set of unsolved questions that shaped the research agenda for math ever since. And the state of the real world as well since many of the areas he suggested had immense ...READ»

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Hey Dude, Where's the Recession Already ?

Not sure how many folks who'll be on the FastCompany community pay attention to the Economic indicators but I'd suggest it'd be very much worth your while to pay a fair amount. Part of the problem is that just going by the ...READ»

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Welcome to BizzXceleration II

I've already got a rather extensive blog and while I may post from time-to-time here it's unecessary to duplicate the postings. You can see my blog at: http://bizzxceleration.llinlithgow.com/ Some recent posts that you ...READ»

The New Approach to business...

 I dont know about everyone else but im fed up with seeing these week corporate strategies that are crippling American potential. Im posing a call to new businesses to forge an attitude of differentiation based on providing a quality ...READ»

Workplace Politics necessary or necessary evil

Politics in the Board room It’s all around us, listen and you will hear and see it.  “POLITICS” that buzz word that is only applicable to.......well  politics !“Political motivation” in the “board rooms” is a term ...READ»

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