“CEO Meg Whitman on balancing buyers’ and sellers’ needs, the pace of change, and why she finds the business ‘endlessly surprising.’”

“Storytelling is a powerful communication tool that marketing and advertising professionals use very skillfully to promote their companiesí products or services. But did you know that stories are also effective as a leadership tool? Many of the most admired US companies have for years used stories to convey values, vision and behaviors that lead to success.”

“Imaginative perks sweeten the pot. But hard-to-achieve basics like leading technologies, personal investment and a sense of fulfillment are what will make IT employees stay put in a changing economy. This year’s top 100 companies have figured out how to give workers the substance along with the frills.”

“Once again, it’s Friday morning and there are at least a half dozen top priorities for the week still undone, not to mention calls to be returned and emails to answer. Where did the hours go? I did a time-audit and here’s what I found…”

“Then there are those other poor souls who still haven’t figured it out. They write the informationless press releases, the superfluous ones, the jargon saturated ones, and the self-important ones. Then there’s an entirely different genre: the press release that makes absolutely no sense.”

“In what might have been the first in-air commercial videoconference, Apple product manager Kurt Knight, on the ground in Cupertino, hooked up over iChat AV with product line manager Eric Zelenka, returning to San Francisco from Munich, by leveraging Lufthansaís new wireless high-speed broadband connection service.”

“…companies are dumping CEOs faster than they can replace them with qualified internal candidates, and thus are turning increasingly to outsiders. But our data shows that outsiders deliver significantly lower shareholder returns than insiders do over the course of their tenure.”

“Why are all these think tanks so down on Open Source? Well, the Small Business Survival Committee is concerned that using open source will expose small business to the risk of lawsuits. Citizens Against Government Waste is concerned that the Government might waste money on Open Source. Defenders of Property Rights is concerned that Open Source might be a threat to intellectual property rights. However, I was able to detect a common theme to all their criticism. They all seem to be funded by Microsoft.”

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“As businesses in industries such as the credit card and wireless markets continue to see their products and services become commoditized, the mitigating factor in achieving profitably is increasingly becoming customer service.”

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“U.S. workers have fewer legal rights to time off for family matters than workers in most other countries, and rank near the bottom in pregnancy and sick leave, a Harvard School of Public Health study found. The report, released Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was based on research on 168 countries.”

Looking over the past several months worth of posts, this weblog by Michael Cage seems to be full of useful and inspirational content. “Entrepreneurs believe they are extraordinarily capable, able to fix the biggest disaster through sheer force of will, and are able to out-work, out-think, and out-hustle anyone and everyone else in or around their business. This is a strength and a weakness. In many cases, they are right. But it is serious flaw to let those feelings dictate their decisions.”

“Mark Zweig, guru to the AE industry, noticed there just aren’t enough good project managers. Writing in his Zweig Letter Mark offered four reasons and three recommendations. I urge you to take his views seriously even if you don’t agree. Mark has a knack of getting to the heart of a subject. And he does so with few words.”