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Council Puts Wrong Birmingham on Leaflet: Birmingham, England residents may be tempted to toss their recycling leaflet from the City Council straight into the paper bin when they see the cover -- the picture on the front is of Birmingham, Ala.'s skyline. [more]
Turtles Come to Dinner: Diners at a beachside restaurant in southern Italy were joined by some unexpected guests -- 60 newly hatched sea turtles. [more]
Husband and Wife Each Win the Lottery: A Wisconsin couple got doubly lucky over the weekend. [more]
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A Guide to Evaluating Best Practices: Following proven business methodologies can improve a company's performance, but often these so-called best practices fail to live up to their flattering handle. [more]
A Guide to Business Location: If you're looking at expanding your operations internationally you need to know how the various regions and cities around the world stack up in terms of business costs. [more]
Upbeat Thinking in the Downturn: One year into the credit crisis and the headlines are still, almost without exception, glum. [more]
Why Most Change Initiatives Go Thud: A startlingly high proportion of business transformation efforts go nowhere, says a new report. [more]
Business Continuity Lessons From the Great Flood of '08: The Midwest floods caught many companies flat-footed and punched holes in their disaster response plans. [more]
Extreme Makeover: How to Overhaul Your Business Model: In the life of any business, the time may come when it's imperative to reexamine the most fundamental assumptions of the enterprise. [more]
The Future of the Supply Chain: Lower energy consumption and emissions; better traceability; reduced traffic congestion; the consumer goods supply chain of 2016 will look very different from today's. [more]
The Growth Trap: The search for growth dominates the strategic agenda at many organizations. [more]
Pricing the F&A Outsourcing Contract: As providers of finance and accounting outsourcing services extend the range of their offerings, contract negotiations are becoming more complex. [more]
CFOs and CMOs Collaborate on Performance Management: On the traditional corporate organizational chart, chief marketing officers' and chief financial officers' paths seldom cross, but today's market environment necessitates cooperation. [more]
Leadership Evolves in Russia: In the past, Russian business leaders weren't known for strong ethics, but this interview with Russia's best-known investment adviser shows things are changing. [more]
The 7 Merger Types -- And Why None of Them Work: A new study from AT Kearney offers insights that might make even the most gung-ho growth strategist pause, but also suggests ways that companies bent on acquisitions can increase their chances of success. [more]
The Leadership Skills That Drive M&A Success: Managers, not markets, are the key to success in mergers and acquisitions. [more]
Study: Business Process Management Initiatives Still Immature: The technology-enabled discipline of business process management (BPM) has achieved rapid adoption among large enterprises in the past few years, but success rates have been less impressive. [more]
Subprime Crisis -- A Failure of Leadership?: The recent catastrophically bad decision-making at giant Wall Street firms comes down to one thing, according to Dr E Ted Prince: their leaders' lack of business acumen. [more]
A New Approach to the Talent Hunt: This interview with Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, offers a new and unusual approach to getting talented employees when you need them -- apply the principles of supply chain management to people. [more]
Meeting Multi-Local Leadership Challenges: As companies discover new business opportunities beyond their current geographic location, executives need to overcome motivational barriers and sharpen cross-border execution skills, as this McKinsey report describes. [more]
How Top-Tier Managers Embrace Paradox: This academic study from the Harvard Business School shows that CEOs of top American and European companies don't adopt an either/or approach to achieving goals. [more]
Procurement: It's a Whole New Chess Game: The rules have changed in the purchasing arena as consolidating supplier markets and soaring commodity prices have transferred negotiating advantages from buyers to sellers. [more]
Driving Lean Six Sigma Success in the Services Sector: Lean Six Sigma earned its reputation for rooting out costs and accelerating performance in the manufacturing industries, and now it's gaining popularity among services companies. [more]