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Ready for a Recovery
Having survived a near-death economic experience, we now need
to focus on how to thrive during a painful recovery.
Irrational exuberance it's not.
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BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS
Five ways to make Lean Six Sigma work
Only 19 percent of companies who pursue Le
an Six Sigm
a
succeed
. Those who do show it can be a significant game chang
er. Mi
ke Pecoraro of Leap Technologies tells you how to
make sure your company is one of the winners.
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THE SKILLS YOU NEED
"The economic engine needs more iPods and fewer data-crunchers"
The emerging economy will require your employees to use both sides of their brain - the data side and the context side. What are you doing to create bridges across that divide?
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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Irrationality is market's real invisible hand
Now that we've demonstrated that markets and individuals do not always behave rationally, your company needs a strategy for dealing with the predictability of uncertainty.
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FUTURE OF COMMON SENSE
"Hasn't your company learned a few things worth sharing?"
Many are calling for a return to common sense business practices. But what exactly does that mean in this recovering economy? What flies in Duluth may not work in Dublin or Dubai. Your company needs to identify its own "shared understandings."
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THE LIMITS OF LOGIC
"If bank executives had applied more
brain science
to their business plans and
less magic math,
they could have easily
avoided the collapse."
- The Heath Brothers on the faults of traditional economic thinking
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STRESS IS KILLING YOUR BUSINESS
"Stress can neuro-chemically alter the fabric of thought."
- Neurologist Amy Arnsten on what shuts down the brain
"The hypothalamus, it turns out, is an excitable drama queen."
- Cognitive Science Journalist Jonah Lehrer
"Even moderate exercise will supercharge your mental circuits so you can deal with stress"
- Harvard Brain Research Dr. John Ratey
PLUS:
Profile: Ruth Skeens, curriculum director
Dan Suwyn in American Journalism Review
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