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Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?SickThese corporate types are all sick. There is so such more to life than corporate growth, power, and big paycheck,Listening to corporate types scheme can make you sick to the stomach too.RE: Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?Isn't Jack Welch the guy who started...

Tags: Jack Welch, sustainability, capitalist

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

What's wrong with this picture? At a time where more leading companies than ever are integrating sustainability, not just into their mid term strategy but into the core of their business models, Jack Welch sits awkwardly on the landscape. Jack and Suzy Welch published a missive on sustainability in Business...

Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Jack Welch, CSR, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Most respected business leaders: Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Carlos Ghosn

Fast Company Magazine points to a survey by Financial Times and Pricewaterhouse Coopers on most respected business leaders.Bill Gates MicrosoftJack Welch GECarlos Ghosn NissanWarren Buffett Berkshire HathawayMichael Dell Dell ComputerHiroshi Okuda ToyotaJeff Immelt GECarly Fiorina HPSteve Jobs AppleFujio Mitarai Canon

Tags: Jack Welch, Carlos Ghosn

Blog posts 2004-12-01

Additional Resources

Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)

What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream

A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...

Tags: General Electric Co., Health Care, Immelt, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-22

5 looming questions about the Amazon-Zappos deal

5 looming questions about the Amazon-Zappos dealAmazon buying Zappos not good for consumerIn corporate America, consoliation of major players is not good for the consumer. The big guys eat up the little guys to eliminate competition so they can control pricing in the market - not good for us consumers....

Tags: Amazon-Zappos, Steinert-Threlkeld

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

News to know: Palm Pre weekend; iPhone Monday; Bing; DTV conversion; Twitter accounts

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Palm Pre weekend: Sprint could steal Palm's moment Matthew Miller: Initial Pre thoughts and answers...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Twitter, Sam Diaz, E-mail, TVs, H-1B, Embedded Linux, Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Linux

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plans

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plansThis is nauseating, and not because of Jobs' healthAfter the financial meltdown that was driven primarily by greed and corruption in the financial services industry, I find it amazing that an Oppenheimer analyst would have the nerve to manipulate Apple's...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Jobs absence, succession plan, leadership, job

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

Women and leadership

Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-27

A tribute to Pop

A tribute to PopNot bad questionsFortunately, he had enough in reserves to hire a private ambulance service to bring him up here. An EMT was with him the whole time and he was able to come up to his favorite place. He traveled up here frequently when he...

Tags: Benefits, tribute

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?

I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David Copperfield mushroom or two thesis has now been published as a book. ...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Emerging Technologies, Robot, Robots, Technology

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Must employers really pay to play?

Must employers really pay to play?There's no surprise, this was predicted!Corporations have been abandoning loyalty to the employee for over 15 years now. How long has it been since any company rolled out a new pension plan or offered to repurpose a large and obsolete workforce due to changes in...

Tags: Workforce management, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, talent, workforce

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

Twitter: show me the money!

Twitter: show me the money!Very perplexing question - corporate deployment perhaps?Simply as an ad revenue generator, Twitter would have to be like the ZDNet blogs and scores of other sites, perhaps with ads relating to the Twitter stream (i.e. like AdSense). However, I see tremendous value in Twitter behind...

Tags: Twitter

Discussion threads 2007-10-15

Ponder this: how many businesspeople are begging for SOA?

Ponder this: how many businesspeople are begging for SOA?A General Manager's perspectiveI couldn't agree more with Jack's points. I also think that IBM may be overstating the SOA adoption story, just a tad.Having had the opportunity to be a CIO for a good sized organization and then run a...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, General Motors Corp., SOA, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

Quick Take: The CIO and the CEO

In the past, chief information officers CIO and chief executive officers CEO have tried to live together. In the 1980s and for most of the 1990s, their paths rarely crossed — the CEO didn't think much about technology and the CIO rarely interacted with executives beyond his boss — the...

Tags: CEO, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications

Research reports 2007-02-27

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)UtopiaYou are solving a problem while ignoring others. You are working WAY down the application stack at the hardware layer. Whether that is the biggest "pain point" is of much discussion.What does the rest of your infrastructure look like? Those servers that are running SunRay software...

Tags: Servers, SunRay, server, Smart Display, job

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz spars with Gartner analysts

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz spars with Gartner analystsMr. Schwartz gets it right, finally.He observed:"We will have R&D…the innovators who create unique intellectual property have the best opportunity to go after the marketplace." Ah, "intellectual property", property, something one owns and can sell to a customer. Solaris was property, but...

Tags: Programming languages, Yahoo Go, Gartner Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., General Electric Co., Java, Schwartz

Discussion threads 2006-05-17

AMD puts down more roots in China

AMD puts down more roots in ChinaYet another reason to NOT buy AMDBut hey, go ahead if you don't care...Fine with me so long as...... whenever we find this dual-use technology in Chineese military hardware, the CEO's of AMD will turn themselves in for treason.Of course, they'd have to get...

Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-10-24

The view from Cisco's helm

In an interview with News.com, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers describes Cisco's ideal takeover target as a company with "about 100 people, primarily in an engineering product area, with good engineers that are just about to bring a new product out (or has just come out.)" About the talk of...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-04-18