rethinkchronicles » money http://www.rethinkchronicles.com A guide through the rapidly developing Rethink Revolution Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 CEO angst revealed http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/18/ceo-angst-revealed/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/18/ceo-angst-revealed/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:55:08 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=825 Chief Executive Magazine asked a cross-section of of CEOs to write about their outlook for the coming year. Editor J.P. Donlon said he was struck by their twin concerns about rising government spending and increasing taxes and regulations, as well as the effect both would have on what they regard as a fragile economic recovery.

Donlon observed, [...]

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]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/18/ceo-angst-revealed/feed/ 0 Time for business leaders to get off their butts http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/07/time-for-business-leaders-to-get-off-their-butts/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/07/time-for-business-leaders-to-get-off-their-butts/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:10:25 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=782 Peter G. Peterson

A prominent billionaire business man has issued a call to arms to American businesss leaders to “get off their butts” and go on the offensive and play a leading role in helping solve the nation’s economic problems. Peter G. Peterson, former Commerce secretary, CEO of Bell and Howell, and cofounder of the Blackstone [...]

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Time for business leaders to get off their butts

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/12/07/time-for-business-leaders-to-get-off-their-butts/feed/ 0 Corporate malfeasance not a surprise http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/05/07/corporate-malfeasance-not-a-surprise/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/05/07/corporate-malfeasance-not-a-surprise/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 16:13:28 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=580 Harvard Professor Rakesh Khurana, who teaches a doctoral seminar on management and is an expert on the CEO labor market, writes caustically that we should not be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance.

He advocates rejuvenating intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders. Khurana contends that university-based business schools were founded to [...]

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Corporate malfeasance not a surprise

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/05/07/corporate-malfeasance-not-a-surprise/feed/ 0 Attention to science and technology vital despite recession http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/05/04/attention-to-science-and-technology-vital-despite-recession/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/05/04/attention-to-science-and-technology-vital-despite-recession/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 23:23:10 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=566 While corporate executives struggle with a recession-induced miasma of layoffs, plant closings, inventory reductions and balance sheet issues, there is a soft drumbeat in the background that is hazardous to ignore.

Jack and Suzy Welch, in their regular column in Business Week, put it this way, “throw some time and energy into figuring out what your company’s [...]

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Attention to science and technology vital despite recession

]]> http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/05/04/attention-to-science-and-technology-vital-despite-recession/feed/ 1 Cash is king in troubled times http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/04/20/cash-is-king-in-troubled-times/ http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/2009/04/20/cash-is-king-in-troubled-times/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:09:42 +0000 Editor http://www.rethinkchronicles.com/?p=509 It has long been a truism that the art of management is knowing the right questions to ask. The key question in today’s business environment is “do you know your company’s cash position every day, even every hour?”

In his new book Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty the highly regarded consultant Ram Charan [...]

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Cash is king in troubled times

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