Monthly Archives: November 2011

Corporate Secrecy & Privacy & Roles of Whistleblowers, Informers, Leakers, Hackers…: The Booming Market for Secrets & Deceptions

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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“Secrecy is critical to more businesses than most people might imagine. Entire industries are based to some extent on the process of creating goods and services and then putting them behind walls of secrecy.” ‘Secrecy & privacy’ is an important part … Continue reading →

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Success in Business & The Golden Ring: Define It… Get It… Use It… Share It… Lose It… Wish You Never Had It…

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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Success in business. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success”. ~Dale Carnegie A Google search on the word ‘success’ brings up nearly 100 million results… That says people are … Continue reading →

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Two Faces of Envy in the Workplace— Destructive & Competitive: Menacing, Motivating, Managing… or Stimulus to Excel

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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“While it is impossible for a leader to eradicate ‘envy’ from the workplace; however, there is much a leader can do to create an environment that minimizes its occurrence.” Envy: He has it; I want it… If I can’t have … Continue reading →

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Business Value Creation Must be Inclusive and Aligned Around the ‘Triad’: Customers, Employees, Investors

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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Business value: Being good enough, is not good enough –give customers, employees, and investors a reason to be faithful.  ~ Graham Roberts-Phelps The fundamental principle of business value is to ‘create value’ for all stakeholders, primarily; ‘customers’, ‘employees’ and ‘investors’. The … Continue reading →

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Corporations Schemes of Tax Non Compliance—Tax Avoidance, Tax Havens, Tax Evasions: Deceptions to Avoid Social Responsibility

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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Corporations Schemes of Tax Non Compliance ‘The United States loses approximately $100 billion in tax revenues every year due to corporations and individuals sending their money to offshore tax havens… that’s just the tip of the tax avoidance scheming…” Tax-noncompliance (Wikipedia) … Continue reading →

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Luck (Good & Bad) Happens in Business… Luck Does Play an Important Role in Business Success: The Return-on-Luck (ROL) Factor

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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“Overall success in business doesn’t mean you ‘got lucky’, it means you used luck, taking advantage of the ‘good’, identifying and canceling the ‘bad’ luck”. ‘Luck’: What is it? How is ’luck’ defined? The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines ‘luck’ as; (a): … Continue reading →

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The Sales Maturity Model Process Improvement Framework: Improving the Maturity-Level of Sales Organizations, Selling Activities, and Produce the Desired Outcome

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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“A Maturity Model looks at how a process should be executed, the persons who will be involved in the execution, the company infrastructure elements that will be used, the metrics and benchmarks that should be used to evaluate performance, as … Continue reading →

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Top Income Earners: Who Are They; Should We Care; Compare Worldwide (The ‘Gini’ Score)

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Bizshifts-Trends
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Top income earners. “In Colonial America, the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting much poorer. In 1687 in Boston, the top-1% owned about 25% of the wealth. By 1770, the top-1% owned 44%. In those same years, the … Continue reading →

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