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The Elephant and the Dragon>>The Wall Street Journal | The Boom Beyond Our Borders
In "The Elephant and the Dragon," Robyn Meredith, a Hong Kong-based correspondent for Forbes magazine, neatly navigates between the boom and the gloom.
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High Cotton >> BusinessWeek | "Gambling On King Cotton"
"Killebrew's experience during the tumultuous year of 2005 is the subject of High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta by Gerard Helferich.
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Monocle, a very cool and hip European magazine, has an video interview with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego. When asked how his company would deal with children's lack of time to play with their product, this was his response:
Playing with Lego is like reading a book,. Books, people have said books would die.
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Random House (a piece of that German giant Bertelsmann) recently crunched their publishing numbers with New York magazine. The numbers:
There are 1,500 Random House employees in New York.
Every week they unveil 67 new books (around 3500 books/year).
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I have seen brilliant entrepreneurial strategies falter as an organization grows and matures. Obviously, you manage a $25 billion company differently than you do a $25 million company. But you change your practices, not your principles.
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