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Talking about “my generation”

Posted by Mark on Sunday, February 21st, 2010. Filed under Economy, Education, Environment, Politics.

"Our parents truly were the Greatest Generation. We, alas, in too many ways, have been what the writer Kurt Andersen ...

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Furniture jobs on NPR

Posted by Mark on Thursday, December 17th, 2009. Filed under Digital lifestyle, Economy.

Great and informative story on NPR, including Broyhill, Caldwell County and Google. Give this series a listen. The first profiles displaced ...

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The new way of business

Posted by Mark on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. Filed under Advertising, Burris, Economy, Fresh Ideas, Managing.

More imagination, fewer resources and assets. That's the way of doing business now. Thomas Friedman's column - ...

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The need to rebuild

Posted by Mark on Saturday, November 21st, 2009. Filed under Economy.

From Bob Herbert's column in this morning's Times: "We need a revitalized industrial policy, ...

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What to drive

Posted by Mark on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. Filed under Advertising, Books, Branding, Economy.

About 15 years ago I read a fascinating book about branding in general, but more specifically about Subaru and its ...

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Alan Mulally interview

Posted by Mark on Monday, July 27th, 2009. Filed under Branding, Customer Service, Economy, Managing.

"During the worst of times, we accelerated our investment in the future." This statement alone is worth the time to watch ...

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Six degrees of Max Baucus

Posted by Mark on Sunday, July 26th, 2009. Filed under Economy, Politics.

Want to see one of the reasons healthcare reform is so difficult? Check out ...

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The jobless rate

Posted by Mark on Friday, July 3rd, 2009. Filed under Economy.

Want to know the real unemployment numbers? Paul Solman offered ...

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The one sentence

Posted by Mark on Saturday, June 27th, 2009. Filed under Branding, Economy, Environment, Politics.

Peggy Noonan's column in The Wall Street Journal today is a wonderful defense of the ...

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No new U.S. furniture manufacturing

Posted by Mark on Sunday, June 21st, 2009. Filed under Economy, Reading.

Apparently not because U.S. manufacturers don't want to bring more furniture-making stateside. Rather, according to industry analyst Jerry Epperson (as ...

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