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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Bad News That’s Good News

If you're like me, you've hit a wall when it comes to bad news. So it’s interesting to hear bad news spun in a positive light, which was the case in a Bloomberg article Tuesday...

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Our New Culture of Liquidity

The concept of long-term borrowing as standard operating procedure has lost some of its luster. The new normal: Buy what you can afford. Lean dovetails nicely with this frugality...

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Here’s How to Change

We’ve all had experience on either side of change — as the one asked to change and as the one who requests it. Those who are asked to change will almost always resist, but that's no excuse for failure...

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Enough of ”More with Less”

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of the term “doing more with less.” It has crept into vendor pitches and whitepaper titles since the economy began its tumble. At first it seemed like a plucky response to a bad situation. In the face of layoffs unprecedented in their scope, it sounds a little obnoxious...

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