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If they are hungry, give them mobiles

I recently finished reading The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. A book definitely worth reading that narrates, from the point of view of -as he calls himself- an indian entrepreneur, the life of those who are pushed down due to their chaste and the relations servant/master (mostly) in North India. At ...

Don’t lie to me!

Reliable sources inform me that the giant Nokia is currently laying off about 50 workers a week. Silently. Worldwide. That makes a total of 2,600 a year. Not too many if compared with the 59,000 of Citigroup, 35,000 of Bank of America or 24,500 of HP. But still, many more ...

Blog me, I’m famous

Select a limited number of popular bloggers, give each of them one of your new products and let them post about it and even give those products to their readers. What would you achieve? Well, in the case of HP, quite a lot. Few months ago, they gave a model of their ...

Quickie: Twit twit!

You have heard about Twitter, haven't you? As their creators say, Twitter is simply a social messaging utility that works real-time. That is, basically, a chat room with a nice design and in which you don't need to be connected full-time in order to read the news about your mates, ...

Don’t kiss me. Don’t hug me.

Pigs are all around these days. Seriously. Everyone is talking about these little Mexican sick-versions of Babe and an outbreak of influenza that made appearance few days ago and is putting dollar bills in the eyes of many pharmaceuticals. But I am not going to talk -once more- about the swine ...

Increase profit by supporting a nonprofit

We all know, we all talk and we all hear daily in the news or in conversations with our peers how bad is the economical situation worldwide and how worst it is going to become during the coming months. The data shown is not surprising anymore but is rather starting ...

MBA in time of cholera

Studying an MBA is, again, becoming a trend. It doesn't seem to matter what is the cost involved in such a course -typically between €40.000 and €60.000 a year-, the preparation candidates need or the forecast of a year -or two- going back to those times surrounded by exams-caused stress, ...

Push it up!

With the economic turndown still spinning around our heads, creativity is today the golden rule, even more than what it used to be. In order to avoid those catastrophic consequences the whole media is warning us about, businesses must now think twice before starting a sales campaign or launching a ...

Quickie: MBAs and Executive MBAs

As I read in Fast Company's blog, MBAs and Lists are the only two things more efficient than fluorescent light bulbs. Here, then, a mixture of both: Businessweek rankings of Part-, Full-time and Executive MBAs (EMBAs); Financial Times rankings: Global (2008), Executive MBAs (2008) and European Business Schools (2007); Wall Street Journal, 2007 ...

How to fire a CEO

You have created an above-average successful company that seems to be growing without showing any signs of recession, while most of your competitors are slowing down. In any case, you have the feeling that the growth is starting to become overwhelming, and that you cannot reach every member of your ...