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The Wall Street Journal unloads a huge, devastating investigation into the BP oil catastrophe this morning, finding that the company cut corners in several areas to get an over-budget, over-deadline project finished. The paper has been doing excellent work on this story but this one particularly shows the paper flexing its muscles (emphasis in all quotes below are mine)….
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The Journal Excels on BP
Building off Liz’s post below, it’s worth noting that Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Carol E. Lee have put together their own list of questions reporters will/should be asking of the president at this afternoon’s press conference. Unsurprisingly, there’s a fair amount of overlap with Karen Tumulty’s list, though where they diverge I prefer WaPo…
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More Prepping for POTUS’s Presser
Hiring someone can be a time-consuming and nerve-wracking task. In an ideal situation, you find the perfect person for the position — someone who hits the ground running, increases your unit’s performance, and eases your workload. In the worst-case scenario, your seemingly perfect hire turns out to be far from it and you spend months dealing with the aftermath, including finding a replacement.
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook . This week’s focus: values.) Are values an essential ingredient of leadership
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Twenty-First-Century Leadership: It’s All About Values
It’s always easier to picture how a manufacturing company can go green — just cut back on energy, waste, and material to reduce air and water pollution, for example. But what does it mean for a service-focused business, such as a software company, to travel down the sustainability path
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SAP and the Greening of a Service Business
This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Karen Omerod wants babies to be more comfy and parents less hassled dressing them. She’s designed an adorable line of yoga-styled, easy on/easy off, tops and bottoms.
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Landing Page Makeover Clinic #26: iGrowKids.com.au
In my last post , I described a research project with Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, on the need for speed in information delivery. It turns out that executives believe not all information needs to be delivered faster, but substantial percentages of executives — a majority, in the case of some types of information — want their information more rapidly than they currently receive it.
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How Do You Speed Up Information Delivery?
AffPortal was the first “PPV Tools” website on the block. It took a whole bunch of tasks that PPV marketers have to do on a regular basis, and made them faster and easier. Things like URL scraping, etc. Now that it’s been out for a while, a competitor has sprung up called AffExpert . At first I was skeptical, because I am a huge fan of AffPortal. But once I got the chance to dig in and use the tools during their free Beta period (which has expired), they won me over. Most of the tools are self-explanatory by the title, but there are a couple of things that I really like about AffExpert’s system that make it unique: When you are scraping URLs, it automatically shows you the Alexa , and Quantcast rankings for all of them. This is pretty cool because you can tell how much traffic a target is going to get before you even test it out on the PPV network. There is a really cool Basket system that you can save all the URLs to that you want to keep, and then download them all at once in one nice file. This eliminates the all-too-common problem of duplicate URLs you get when you are scraping through other methods, and it will also give you the option to add or remove the final slash (/) at the end of the URLs. Since PPV networks like DirectCPV consider “domain.com” to be a different URL than “domain.com/”, this can be handy
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AffExpert > AffPortal (A Review)
If you’re like me, you’ve seen and heard a lot of economist Nouriel Roubini lately. Just in the past couple of weeks, the NYU professor known as Dr. Doom has been interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition , in the FT , in Der Spiegel , on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher .
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What Exactly is Nouriel Roubini Good For?
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in the field of microcredit. As the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Yunus demonstrated that lending money to poor people to start businesses could be profitable and could transform their lives by raising them out of poverty. Today, Yunus is advocating something even more revolutionary: an entire market system of companies that solve social problems and are financially self-sustaining.
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The Bold Vision of Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus
The ongoing media and blogospherian outrage about Facebook’s behavior , and purported misbehaviors around the social network’s privacy policies and practices intrigues me. (Disclosure: My brother, Elliot Schrage , is a top Facebook executive; I’ve been an occasional resource for him on these issues)
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Facebook’s Privacy Debate Misses the Point
Editors’ note: This is the second in a series of posts examining myths about why employees don’t speak up, based on the June HBR article, ” Debunking Four Myths About Employee Silence .” Fear is a prominent reason for workplace silence.
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Do Your Employees Think Speaking up Is Pointless?
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook . This week’s focus: values.) From the Gilded Age to the Information Age , business leaders who attain rock star status have often been the deal makers.
With global expansion, intra- and inter-industry restructuring, and increasing numbers of merging organizations, the need for dynamic flexibility and a broad base of knowledge and expertise is greater than ever. Shared leadership, by virtue of its use of the combined best of leaders’ abilities, is being tested as one possible solution for meeting these challenging business needs. What is shared leadership?
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Sharing Leadership to Maximize Talent
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” — Stephen Kaggwa Earlier this week I was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s morning show discussing “The Gulf Oil Spill and the Blame Game.” The other guest was Alan Webber , ex of HBR , founder of Fast Company , and author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self , and we had a wonderful conversation about the culture of unaccountability that contributed to the ecological disaster we are witnessing in the Gulf, and the blame game that is being played out in the media. One caller raised the fascinating issue of forgiveness, raising the legitimate concern that punishing failures like what happened with BP in the Gulf would lead inevitably to people denying responsibility, blaming others, and seeking to hide their failures
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When Should We Forgive Failure?
With the first round of health reform under our belts, it’s time to shift attention from access to the real issue plaguing the American health system: cost. The cost issue is complex, spanning payment models, medical malpractice and defensive medicine, and the specialty versus primary care debate. But I want to focus on consumers, and the broader context in which they make their healthcare decisions.
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Prevention and Consumer Self-management
I mentioned in my original Best Apple iPad Case post that I had ordered a total of 5 iPad cases and covers in my search for something better than the flimsy Apple iPad Case. The first iPad cover I mentioned in the video came from HandHeld Items
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Best Apple iPad Case – Part 2 
(Photo: Peter Dazeley) Do Americans care about fuel economy as oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico and gasoline hovers around $3 a gallon? You bet they do, though they also have a fair number of misconceptions about how to squeeze a few more miles out of every drop. The Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) most recent survey says that if we had a 50-mile-per-gallon car fleet today, we’d save more oil than the entire proven reserves in the entire Gulf of Mexico.
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Six gas mileage myths
After a day of working in your garden, where you have managed to cover yourself from head to toe with dirt, mud, grass stains, and other stains, how “cleaned up” do you need to be to make one last mad dash to the garden center to get that last (fill in blank here of what you ran short of)? We have already established that most serious gardeners wear some of the goofiest outfits while out working
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How Clean? A Giveaway Sponsored by Botanical Interests
If are looking for tips to improve the visibility of your website in Google search, or if you need answers to some common SEO related problems, here’s an interview with the Google search quality team that you will definitely find useful.
