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Annette Lode
RECESSION   |  Comment

Dow 10,000 and 10% Unemployment: A Dangerous Reciprocity That Signals Need for Change

Recently, both the Dow and the unemployment rate almost simultaneously broke historical milestones, one good (Dow 10,000) and one bad (unemployment 10%). The lock step ascent of these two metrics has continued since the beginning of ...READ»

Annette Lode

One Company Decides When to Say "When" in Next Phase of Flexible Downsizing

As follow-up to last week’s post, “One Year Later: Next Stage of Flexible Downsizing Post-Recession, Pre-Recovery,” I interviewed Scott Jones*, a senior executive at a national architecture, engineering and construction company ...READ»

RECOVERY   |  Comment

How to Drive a Stake into the Hearts of Shareholders

A recovery without jobs? Halfway through the current recession, it's clear things would have been different if companies had invested in stakeholders and not shareholders. We fired the very people who can turn this around.READ»

EconomicStress

Infographic of the Day: The AP's Economic Stress Index

This interactive graphic just might be the web's best, most granular look at our recession.READ»

BRAND   |  Comment

The Silent Screams of Consultants

We're all consultants. We offer expertise to make a connection and receive compensation. It isn't easy. We get lost and frustrated. We imagine in private what we might say to our client. . . if we had the guts.READ»

Compass and Map

Roadmap for Recovery: Five Ways to Help Your Company Survive Now

History has shown that hard times can provide as much opportunity as pitfalls. Want proof? Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox are just three innovation-driven companies that were founded during the Great Depression. More recently, ...READ»

RWANDA   |  Comment

The Rwandan Genocide: 15 Years Later

There is a Rwandan proverb that says, roughly translated, you can't know where you're going unless you understand where you have come from. Today, Rwanda is one of Africa's bright spots--a developing country with great ambitions to lift its people out of poverty and a bold strategy to make that happen. Its rise is all the more remarkable if you recall that, just 15 years ago, the nation was ripped apart by the most stunning genocide of our time. About 1 million people, a full eighth of the population, were killed in three bloody months.READ»

BUSINESS   |  Comment

Public Relations is Not Responsible for the Economic Drop

As the economy worsens and it begins to affect each of us personally, we begin the very human process of finger pointing and blame gaming. Lately the focus of some of that blame has been leveled at our own profession…public ...READ»

BUSINESS   |  Comment

AIG PR firms now up to Four…, and CEO just does 'okay'

How many PR consultants does it take to change a… Oops! Right joke, wrong professionREAD»

Hello fellow earthlings.

I have had this idea and I am working on making it my innovation. I have a provisional patent, and realize going forward with a utility patent may be 15k to 20k waste of money. However, I just recieved my NOTICE OF ALLOWANCE for ...READ»

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