On November 18, 2010

Job Seeking When You’re Over 50

Recently I asked a few laid-off high tech engineers to talk about their job search experience. Most of them were over 50, and the anger and frustration just rolled out of them: "They say I am overqualified for…

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On November 18, 2010

Deficit Schlock: Why Rep. Paul Ryan is Putting Medicare on the Chopping Block

The Wisconsin Republican wants to cut the federal deficit by privatizing the federal health care program and abandoning Medicaid to the states. Bad idea.

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On November 18, 2010

The Intelligence Challenge: Lessons from the Private Sector

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military.

Since 9/11, the need for increased collaboration and information sharing within the military and intelligence communities has become a constant requirement. As Marine intelligence…

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On November 18, 2010

Program or Be Programmed

Douglas Rushkoff follows his full size, largely distributed Life, Inc. with an indie distributed, smaller book called Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. The biggest difference though, is not the size or distribution —…

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On November 18, 2010

Microsoft and Apple Race to the Vehicle Media Market

Microsoft and Apple are both interested in locking down aspects of delivering media to vehicles, and even collecting information from them, as ways to bolster strategies.

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On November 18, 2010

Overcoming the Obstacles to “Clutch” Performance

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military.

Colonel Mathew Bogdanos had to make a choice.

The Marine officer had been sent into Iraq ahead of the US invasion in 2003…

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On November 18, 2010

National Small Business Barometer Results Hold Steady

The results of the latest national Small Business Barometer Survey have been released, and while the average small business owner wasn't chugging champagne and shooting off fireworks in the third quarter, neither was he (or she) being forced to research…

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On November 18, 2010

Value-Based Management Lessons from the Marines

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military.

In July, a group of Atlanta business leaders spent time at the Marine Recruit Depot at Parris Island in South Carolina. The purpose of…

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On November 18, 2010

General Motors IPO: Three Things Bankruptcy Taught GM

General Motors may have learned them the hard way, but CEO Dan Akerson said on GM's first day back on the New York Stock Exchange that the company had learned its lessons from bankruptcy.

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Aussies Snub Technology For In-Person Meetings | BTalk

Podcast: Aussies are reluctant to embrace communications and collaboration technology. Could this mean we're missing out on global business opportunities?

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