Archive for the business Category

Five Turnaround Tips for Ron Johnson, JC Penney and Others

Original article appeared on CNBC.com – March 11, 2013 Ron Johnson’s cheering section must be working overtime these days to now credit him for reinventing the definition of corporate performance. When the Dow has been setting new records on a daily basis, JC Penney stock limps along. Major shareholder Vornado Realty […]

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Hopeful That Old Media Can Teach New Lessons

Today’s hottest industries and companies run the risk of being tomorrow’s troubled also-rans if they do not continually enhance value propositions. I believe nothing illustrates that better than February’s blizzard of activity in the media sector where Time Inc., pursued a sale of its lifestyle magazines to […]

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Maximum Nonsense About Minimum Wages

Executives and business trade associations fighting against President Obama calling for an increase in the minimum wage are arguing against their own self interests. Organizational success is a function of many productive sums adding up to a greater whole, and the correlation between a properly compensated workforce that […]

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