On February 12, 2010

Win-Win: History and Development Combine in Los Angeles

Preservation and development are usually mutually exclusive, but the Los Angeles Century Plaza Hotel shows how both developers and preservationists can win and create a successful and money-saving plan

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How do you utilize your web page to make running your small business easier?

Do you have a help section? An FAQ? Clearly spelled out customer service policies? Share how your web page makes your life a little easier!

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Cold January Doesn’t Snuff Gaming Industry’s Hopes for 2010

After enjoying a holiday bounce, the U.S. video game industry came crashing back down to Earth in January with post-Christmas double-digit drops in hardware and software sales, according to the latest figures from industry researchers NPD Group.

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Where Is Your White Space?

"We see local as the big white space."

That's America Online (AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong recently explaining to a group of investors how AOL's "digitizing towns" initiative (to offer one-stop website-management services to municipalities all across the…

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Google Chart Tools Introduced

It is no doubt possible to get through life - or at least life after your last math class - without ever making a chart. Just the same, charts and graphs can liven up websites and business presentations, and a…

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Motorola Divides to Force Focus. But Is the Split Unfocused?

Motorola hopes splitting the company into two pieces will improve performance. What remains to be seen is whether the actual structure of the split will work or cause other problems.

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Jack Covert Selects – Switch

Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway Business, 320 pages, $26.00, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780385528757

Chip and Dan Heath, brothers and scholars, won the inaugural 800-CEO-READ Business…

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Jack Covert Selects – Mojo

Mojo: How to Get it, How to Keep it, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith, Hyperion Books, 224 pages, $26.99, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9781401323271

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Jack Covert Selects – Denial

Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face—and What to do About It by Richard S. Tedlow. Portfolio, 272 Pages, $26.95, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9781591843139

Professor Richard Tedlow, author of two of my…

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Job Losses at Omnicom Stopped as Penny-Pinching Policy Kicked In

Job losses at Omnicom (OMC) -- the parent company of ad agencies BBDO, TBWA and DDB -- have stabilized, according to CFO Randall Weisenburger. It's the first time Omnicom has reported no net loss of jobs since 2008.

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