Business owners are also consumers. Think about the products and services you purchase for your business operations. If you do not get what you paid for do you know how to negotiate or complain effectively to get results?
Here are some excellent strategies business owners can learn from consumers who have honed this skill
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See what you can learn from an interview with Barbara J. Krumsiek, chief executive and chairwoman of the Calvert Group Ltd., an investment firm, where Krumsiek reveals that her success in business is more of an obstacle course than a career ladder.
Q. Were there any surprises for you when you became the C.E.O. for...
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Here are six ideas by CNN editor, Allan Sloan, on reigning in Wall Street. See if you agree with him.
Step 1. Demand more skin in the game
Any reform plan worth its salt should greatly increase capital requirements — the amount of money that stockholders have at risk, relative to an institution’s assets —...
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The most important financial instruments on Earth — long-term bonds issued by sovereign governments are the next victims of too much government debt, including U.S. Treasury Bonds.
Greek government bond collapse the first victim and spreading
On October 8, 2009, Greece’s benchmark 10-year bond was selling for 112.295. Today, it has collapsed to 92.13.
And the drama...
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The unemployment report on Friday was simply a disaster
Based on the government’s payroll survey, the economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, many more than analysts had expected.
Worse, based on its separate household survey, the government reported that the job losses in December were 589,000 — over SIX times more.
So which of the two figures...
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