Book Review by Andy Ghillyer The word risk should accompany any decision or action to reflect the relative probability of an alternate outcome to the one anticipated. Typically, that alternative outcome is expected to be
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Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System
Philip Kotler is widely acknowledged as the father of modern marketing and the world’s foremost expert on strategic marketing. He was voted the first Leader in Marketing Thought by the American Marketing Association and named
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THE DEMOGRAPHIC CLIFF How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019 Economist Harry Dent was almost a lone voice in the wilderness as he predicted that by the 1990s, Japan’s economy would
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THE THREE RULES DIRECT FROM DELOITTE: NEW RULES FOR SUCCESS The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think is a tribute to the power of combining exhaustive statistical data with consulting insight. Written by two veteran
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Next week we are hosting two webinars that seem to be in direct contrast to one another. On August 6th we will talk with N. Dean Meyer on “evolving your financial-management processes toward the common-sense
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ANTIFRAGILE How can the world deal with the highly improbable, high-impact “black swan” events that philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his bestseller The Black Swan? The answer comes in Taleb’s new book, Antifragile, a
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“In a monumental verdict, a jury recently awarded Apple $1.05 billion dollars in damages, determining that Samsung copied the technology used on the iPhone and iPad. Christian Louboutin did not make out as well in
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Next week is special at Soundview, as we have three guest speakers joining us for Soundview Live throughout the week. Whether you’re interested in increasing your productivity, understanding the shift in our global economy, or
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THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE NO NOISE WITH THIS BUZZWORTHY BOOK Nate Silver, the creator of the New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com, is probably America’s most well-known statistician, especially after his assertion that a
Continue ReadingA Captivating View of An Economic Tiger
WHAT CHINESE WANT A CAPTIVATING VIEW OF AN ECONOMIC TIGER What Chinese Want is an exhaustive and revealing exploration of the Chinese people — and more specifically the different cultural, political and economic forces that
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Although we’re seeing some slight improvements in our economy in recent weeks, we still have a long way to go to a full recovery. However, some are looking beyond the present crisis and see signs
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As we read the latest news about the financial crisis in Europe and the deficit stalemate in the United States, it’s hard to imagine that there could be a financial boom coming anytime soon. So
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For anyone owning a BlackBerry, last Wednesday was a frustrating day. The company experienced a service outage that in some countries lasted three days. And because BlackBerry’s are used predominantly by business executives, this brought
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