Business Literature: Author's Choice

It Is about You

Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor of Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results, introduces a passage on the importance of self-awareness from Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…and Learn from the Worst, by Robert I. Sutton.

August 24, 2010

Business Literature: Knowledge Review

What Experience Would You Like with That?

by Theodore Kinni

How a new view of consumers changed the way we think about products, companies, and economies.

August 24, 2010

Business Literature: Author's Choice

Bill Gore’s Formula for Failure

Rich Teerlink, author, with Lee Ozley, of More Than a Motorcycle, introduces a passage on how managers can empower their workforce, from Freedom, Inc., by Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz.

August 9, 2010

Thought Leaders

Navigating Turmoil in the Global Technology-services Sector

by Vikas Sehgal and Ann Graham

For Girish Paranjpe, co-CEO of India’s Wipro Technologies, the best response to economic crisis was reinvestment: in people, green technology, and expansion.

Books in Brief

August 24, 2010

Prosperity Lost and Regained

by David K. Hurst

A review of The Road from Ruin, by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green.

Prosperity without Growth

by David K. Hurst

A review of Smart Growth, by Edward D. Hess.

Continual Prosperity

by David K. Hurst

A review of The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley.

Prosperity Redistributed

by David K. Hurst

A review of The Spirit Level, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

Here is the link:

http://www.industryweek.com/Media/whitepapers/NewProcurementStrategies.pdf

… consider Ireland, which has suffered an astonishing 16 consecutive months of price deflation. The Irish CPI fell by 2.1% year-on-year in April. This deflation action is beginning to make Japan's experience of the past 20 years look like a picnic because Ireland, unlike Japan in the 1990s, remains in fiscal contraction mode. Thus, the Irish government aims to reduce its deficit to 10% of GDP in 2011 and then to 2.9% in 2014 from 14.3% last year…

Others in the euro-zone will surely follow. Spain has potentially a huge deflationary cycle to endure given its level of consumer leverage and the degree of anticipated fiscal tightening. Spain's household debt-to-GDP ratio was 83% at the end of 2009, and Spain has to refinance €165 billion of maturing government debt by the end of 2011.

Buyers with fixed priced contracts – that thought they had a good deal – actual may not.

from Supply Excellence