Business
Smart Taxes
How to Avoid a Hefty Tax Bill – BusinessWeek
Take credits for research and development: Are you spending money doing research to discover new business components or gain tech knowledge? You can take 20% of your excess expenses as a credit, says Jackson. “The trick is that you have to be able to document the research [...]
The Falling Dollar
Behind the Dollar’s Woes – BusinessWeek
Many factors, including the threat of deeper rate cuts at home and stronger economic performance elsewhere, are piling up against the U.S. dollar
I sure hope that the dollar stops falling against every other currency. We’re already paying 10% more for our products simply on currency rate changes. That [...]
Accepting Criticism
Why It’s In Our Own Interest to Acknowledge Criticism – BusinessWeek
What should we do when someone criticizes us? As long as the criticism isn’t petty, vicious, personal, or otherwise way off base, we should take it to heart. It’s only by carefully considering what a critic has to say that we’re able to become [...]
Wasteful Business Routines in a Growing Company
The Problem with Business as Usual – BusinessWeek
It seems like a no-brainer, but taking the time to root out stupid routines can mean the difference between a company’s success and failure
Finding inefficiencies in my business is something that drives me nuts, but so often it doesn’t make sense to fix them. [...]
Geek CEOs Reprised!
Techies Need to Know the Business – BusinessWeek
Technical experts need to be viewed and developed as business professionals early in their careers; at the speed of business today, it’s essential to align every activity to strategy. Increasingly, areas such as information technology and R&D are moving from being cost centers to driving business strategy. [...]
Facebook, IPOs and Turning Down Billions at 23
Web 2.0’s Long Road to IPOs – BusinessWeek
LinkedIn is hewing closely to the Web economy’s new motto on initial public offerings: Easy does it. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn may not sell shares until some time next year. Likewise, social networking site Facebook, worth $15 billion on paper, may not go public until 2010, a company [...]
Who’s Going to Sell Online By Teaching, not Price Slashing?
Web retail sales to dodge effects of slowing economy – News.com
Despite a slowing U.S. economy, online retail sales will continue to grow at double-digit rates for the next several years, but it will begin to take a turn toward maturity by 2012, according to new research from JupiterResearch.
U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach [...]
Looking Beyond Your Industry For New Ideas
Wide-Angle Thinking – BusinessWeek.com
…advising that companies should roam far beyond their traditional bounds to better understand not just technology but myriad practices and processes. Say, for instance, a manufacturer needs to tap a team of top talent for a project that will be disbanded after a relatively brief period. Handy’s suggestion: Arrange a visit to [...]
Geek CEOs Are the Wave of the Future!
Luckily, my geek roots are going to help me keep my job.
CEOs Must Know IT–Or Else
A massive study links effective leadership with corporate projects driven by advancement in information technology. However, some doubt whether the current generation of CEOs is able to adapt, able to get their heads around IT. For those who don’t the [...]
China – Will the prosperity move inland?
China Congress Puts People First
At annual Beijing meeting, Premier Wen Jiabao announces plans to slow growth in the cities and boost development in the countryside
China has been growing incredibly fast, but all of the growth has been concentrated on the eastern seaboard and in Special Economic Zones (SEZ) like Shanghai and Shenzhen. Much of [...]