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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 5
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Today's Dose of The Executive Almanac: How to Deal with White-Collar Crime "In September 2004, the Chinese government executed four bank executives for fraud totaling $15 million. The two banks involved were state-owned entities. Wang Liming, an accounting officer at China Construction Bank, was put to death, along with an accomplice, Miao Ping, for stealing 20 million yuan (about $2.
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800ceoread Blogs Now Available Through Email
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I got a request this week to make our blogs available to people through email. Since we use Feedburner to host our RSS feeds, adding Feedburner Email was a snap. So, if you have friends and neighbors who might enjoy what we do and don't use RSS yet, let them know we now welcome everyone.
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Books for 20-Somethings: Part 1
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This is the first in a series of blog posts I plan to write about books for new recruits and fresh-out-of-college employees. I think these books can be beneficial to both 20-somethings and the people who employ them. It discusses the issues new recruits face and provides strategies for high, quality performance.
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Must-Read: Made To Stick
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My friend Bob Sutton told me in March 2006 that I needed to watch out for the Heath brothers. Bob said they had a great book coming out and that Dan and Chip were going to be stars. I saw a galley for Made To Stick the next month and I fell in love with it.
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Change or Die. (Wait, what?!)
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Do you remember this cover story in Fast Company magazine? Change or Die Well, Alan Deutschmann has developed it into an entire book. Change or Die.
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iRapture
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Mea culpa: I am one of the pod people, an invadee of the body snatchers, when it comes to the mass hysteria surrounding the iPhone. To me this is not a story about an insanely great $500 cel phone cum music player; Jobs’s landmark keynote signaled an event of huge business consequence. More than a shiny new toy, more than the buzziest product of the decade, more than a business tool with ginormous cultural cachet; this iPhone blows me away in the following ways.
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Harvard Business School Press Goes Web 2.0
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The publicity team at Harvard Business School Press is using del. icio. us to store and distribute PR hits they get for their books.
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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 4
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Today's Dose of The Executive Almanac: Whatever Happened to Borden Founded 1857 "Once the world's largest food company--Gail Borden invented condensed milk, and the company was the first to put fresh milk into bottles--Borden lost its way in the 1980s, selling and buying companies at a rapid clip. Meanwhile, it was making more money in chemicals than in foods. In 1995 the investment firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts acquired Borden in a leveraged buyout and then sold off the food business, including Cracker Jack, Creamette and Prince pastas, Snow's Clam Chowder, Realemon, and Wise's Cheez Doodles.
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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 3
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Today's dose from The Executive Almanac: "Teach Your Son to Play First Base Here are the average annual salaries of baseball players in 2004, according to position played First base: $6. 8 million Outfield: $4. 5 million Third base: $3.
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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 2
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Today's dose of The Executive Almanac: "Candy maker Frank Mars of Minneapolis, Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar in 1923, followed by Snickers in 1930 and 3 Musketeers in 1937. Now the Mars company is a giant corporate, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, near the CIA, another secretive outfit. Descendants Frank Mars own the company entirely, have nothing to do with the stock market, and don't entertain inquiries from the press.
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