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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. The WSJ introduced us to the workers at Rheingans Digital Enabler in Germany, who only put in five-hour days, for a workweek of 25 hours.

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Mish Fined 8,000 Euros for Quoting French Blog

MishTalk

On September 2, 2011, the Wall Street Journal chimed in with A French Banking Primer. trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 French Banking Primer. of its assets—which means its €1.6

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How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience

Harvard Business

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Record your positive currency transactions (jotting them down in a leather bound journal or a digital equivalent). You and the rest of your team likely poured over reports and spreadsheets, facts and figures.

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Lawyer Advises Me "Don't Go to France"; French Pub Fined €9,000 for Using "Undeclared Labor" after Customers Returned Empties to Bar

MishTalk

All I did was quote a French blogger on bank leverage, and the numbers I quoted were matched by the Wall Street Journal. Wolf Richter at the Testosterone Pit commented on Gagging Doubt: French Crackdown On French And American Bloggers Who Question Megabank Balance Sheets The France''s Financial Markets Authority (AMF) announced on Nov.

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

In our recently published work in the Journal of Business Research , we tested the theory that downsizing could lead to a host of problems that eventually increases the likelihood of bankruptcy. based corporations. We speculated that examining firms’ remaining resources could shed light on this question.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business

An important new study , published in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that climate change will be expensive. These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. Extremely expensive. Forget the polar bears; your pension and retirement funds are in trouble.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Comstock is out.