Monthly Archives: August 2011

Making Clients Part of the Design Process

All you need is love: the Client/Designer Relationship (freelancepreneur.wordpress.com)
The right and wrong way to create a design concept (xemion.com)
Top 7 Reasons to Hire a Large Design Company (xemion.com)

Posted in CRM, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Web 2.0 and Information Technology,, Front Office and Customer Service Operations, Knowledge management, Performance management, Recovery and the way out of the crisis, recession and depression, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends

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Tags: Arts, Business, Business Services, Clients, Design, Designer, Web design, Website

The Consumption Economy Is Dying—Let it Die – Michael Mandel – Business – The Atlantic

Aug 21

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The Consumption Economy Is Dying—Let it Die – Michael Mandel – Business – The Atlantic.

The big problem with consumer spending is that if you buy a product made outside the U.S., it doesn’t encourage domestic investment. And that’s what we really need.

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With the stock market plunging, we’ve heard plenty of warnings that a “pullback” in consumer spending could trigger another recession. Let me suggest an alternative. The last thing this economy needs is more debt-fueled consumer spending which mainly creates jobs overseas. Instead, we should be focused on boosting investment in physical, human, and knowledge capital. Read all at

The Consumption Economy Is Dying—Let it Die – Michael Mandel – Business – The Atlantic.

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Can the Middle Class Be Saved? (3quarksdaily.com)
Consumer Confidence Is Killing the Economy (dailyfinance.com)
Stock Market Losses Threaten Recovery As Wealth Vanishes For Consumers (huffingtonpost.com)

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Tags: Business, Consumer spending, Investing, Michael Mandel, Reuters, Stock market, Stocks and Bonds, The Atlantic

DRUCKER on the DIAL: From Top to Bottom–What Makes an Effective Organization?

Aug 21

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Cycle Chic Photo Shoot for Velorbis

Host Phalana Tiller interviews author Justin Menkes and management professor Paul Adler about what makes organizations highly effective – from the very top, all the way through the lower rungs.

And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece on Vizio‘s innovative management mode

The Drucker Institute to Launch a New Radio Program, “Drucker on the Dial” (prweb.com)
How does Vizio keep its TV prices so low? Lots and lots of outsourcing. (zdnet.com)
DRUCKER ON THE DIAL: The Importance of Work (serve4impact.com)

Posted in Recovery and the way out of the crisis, recession and depression, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends

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Tags: Advertising Age, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Claremont Graduate University, Executive director, Peter Drucker, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, United States, Vizio

Working week thought: Indentured servitude. | Indexed

Aug 21

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Found at Indentured servitude. | Indexed.

Are you an indentured servant? (slavewage.wordpress.com)

Posted in Because i like to share again and again, Recovery and the way out of the crisis, recession and depression, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends

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Tags: Arts, Indentured servant, Labour economics, Literature, Slavery, United States, Work, World Literature

The State of Digital Education Infographic

Aug 21

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The Internet has already disrupted many major industries. It’s poised to transform education, too.
Why now? Share your thoughts in the comments below.