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The last couple of years have totally changed our attitudes to the words ‘trust in business‘.  Many businesses whom people automatically trusted, have fallen in our estimation.  Banks and financial institutions along with the car manufacturing industry proved that their business models were broken and damaged our trust.  The Dow Jones index even dropped 8% in 10 minutes during the week and altho it was restored quickly it now leaves  [ Read More ]

This is a guest post by Ellen Longo of Astro4Business Intersections: Business Success through Astrology Recently I came across a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) about opportunities for Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in a downturn.  For those of us in small business, what they call M&A, we call buying or selling a business.   At my last “M&A” opportunity I made a fundamental mistake.  I want to share  [ Read More ]

I was astounded to read a post on GoRumors yesterday which outraged me ‘Google To Patent Online Promotions Via Status Messages’ by Anand Srinivasan: Websites asking new users to “spread the word” by logging into their email accounts is not exactly new. Of late, it is not very uncommon to see the same thing happen with social networks. However, ‘The Mechanical Zoo’, the parent company of Aardvark – the social  [ Read More ]

All the big business collapses over the last few years have exposed the lack of moral code & ethics in a lot of corporations, not to mention very unsatisfactory business models.  It appears that business needs a core of ethics & integrity to thrive and enjoy long term success.  Ethics are not optional because we work & live with other human beans!  TechCrunch recently had a great post by Vivek  [ Read More ]