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Be Bold In Life.

Rich Gee Group

I was going through some papers that take me back to 2001-2002 and I saw this phrase, “Be Bold In Life&#. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. You know when you get so caught up in your career and life you forget things? Well I did. Next post: How To Deliver Unbelievable Customer Service. Smile or Die!

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices). competitors are entering the market. There is exponential growth to be had.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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CEOs Need Courage

Harvard Business Review

Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover. Lafley has noted, the best time to gain market share is when your competitors are in retreat. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Right now, yesterday's organizations — from corporations to Congress — have a gaping, yawning disclosure gap: the how, what, why, how and when of disclosure simply isn't good enough for markets and communities to be able to allocate and utilize resources productively or efficiently.

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