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“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.
... you are probably taking up to much space." ...Business management genius, Peter Drucker.
Where the end of Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains meets the rest of world.
“El conocimiento tiene que ser mejorado, desafiado e incrementado constantemente, o se desvanece.” “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” – Peter Drucker.
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From an overnight trip to Yangdong Maeul (Village) near Gyeongju, South Korea. Yangdong is a village that is preserved for historical and tourism purposes. The lady in the photo is making silk thread in the traditional Korean fashion. Although not obvious from the photo, the blue container on the right side is full of silk worms being heated to force them to produce the silk. As they mature and no longer produce the silk the lady plucks them one at a time with chopsticks and places them in the wicker basket in the center. She then replaces them with other, fresher silk worms contained in the green bucket. And all of this while turning the wooden wheel with her left hand.
"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all." (Peter Drucker)
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." Peter Drucker.
The surroundings of Taipei 101, which was the world's tallest building in the past, are one of the busiest areas of the capital city of Taiwan. I had always wanted to create an image that showed the daily chaotic invasion of the streets by motorcycles, cars and other vehicles at the end of the workday.
Taipei, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is a city in constant transformation. In this area new skyscrapers are being built every day. The walkway from which I took the photographs was going to be demolished soon, a real shame because the view from there is truly impressive.
To obtain this result I mixed a total of 20 photographs taken at the same point: 3 exposures for the city buildings, 1 for the sky and the other 16 for composing traffic trails.
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"La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es creándolo." Peter Drucker.
Los alrededores del Taipei 101, el que fuera edificio más alto del mundo en su momento, son una de las zonas con más tráfico de la capital de Taiwan. Siempre había querido realizar una fotografía que reflejara la caótica invasión diaria de las calles por parte de motos, coches y demás vehículos al acabar la jornada de trabajo.
Taipei, una de las urbes más densamente pobladas del mundo, es una ciudad en continua transformación. En esta zona la construcción de nuevos rascacielos es constante. La propia pasarela desde la que realicé las fotografías iba a ser demolida próximamente, una verdadera pena porque la vista desde allí es verdaderamente impresionante.
Para obtener este resultado he mezclado un total de 20 fotografías tomadas en el mismo punto: 3 exposiciones para los edificios de la ciudad, 1 para el cielo y las otras 16 para componer las luces del tráfico.
Lo más importante en la comunicación es escuchar lo que no se dice.
– Peter Drucker
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it. ”
– Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window." Peter Drucker
Finding scenes like this is why I love driving the country back roads.
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December 13th 2011
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Peter Drucker
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
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Webster’s defines the word “Pleasure” as “A state of gratification” being able to work with Nos is quite gratifying.
I’ve said it before but I’d encourage everyone to check out Nos’s flicker page. While I don’t voice it often as I should I do enjoy seeing new works. Nos’s ideas always help expand my character depth even at some of the most basic levels.
Please enjoy and stop by Nos’s Flicker page.
*Working Towards a Better World
The revolution in global communications
thus forces all nations to reconsider
traditional ways of thinking about
national sovereignty. -
George Shultz
The single biggest problem
in communication is the
illusion that it has
taken place. -
George Bernard Shaw
The most important thing
in communication is
hearing what was said. -
Peter Drucker
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
~ Peter Drucker
I was downtown earlier this month, taking my street photography class on a "field trip." We passed the Chicago Cultural Center and asked if they would like to stop in even though it wasn't really related to shooting street. Glad they all said yes, because I never tire of this place. Shot with my Sony NEX-5R and Sigma 30mm lens.
November 24, 2014
"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different." - Peter Drucker
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All in all, a fairly mundane day at the office. Yes it was busy but at the same point I was able to make some progress in my backlog of things that need doing so it actually felt like things were getting done. Which, to me, is always a good thing in the office.
After work though, I was hit with some pretty sad news. My car is a write-off. My poor dedicated KIA is no longer with us, and now it's a game of waiting to see what the next step is. It's frustrating and disappointing, but what I can I do? I just keep reminding myself that the important thinng is that no one was hurt, but that only eases the sting of losing my car. It doesn't completely remove that sting.
But, c'est la vie, right? Life goes on.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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I started a new challenge today, similar to some of the challenges I have seen via Instagram. The ones I have seen really preach perfectionism on the program, where if you miss any target you have to start over.
Life is not perfect, so why should I expect to be? I'll try my best over the next 100 days to meet the components of the challenge, but won't just start over if I have a bad day.
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Year Fifteen Of My 365 Project
SBE310 Final Exam
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1. (TCO 1) Approximately what percentage of businesses have a payroll with fewer than 500 people?
(Points : 5)
10 percent
25 percent
75 percent
99 percent
2. (TCO 1) You have a small business that offers printing services. One of the services you offer is a high-speed color copier. You are currently the only printing service in a tri-state area that offers such a service. You currently have _______.
(Points : 5)
Creative destruction
A competitive advantage
A qualitative advantage
A capital advantage
3. (TCO 1) Your employees are your most valued assets due to their _______.
(Points : 5)
Skill, knowledge, and information
Earnings
Knowledge of finance and accounting
College degree and high IQ
4. (TCO 1) Entrepreneurship primarily involves which phase of business?
(Points : 5)
The startup process
Hiring of key employees
Maintaining a positive cash flow
Building and maintaining a sufficient customer base
5. (TCO 1) Which of the following is the most common form of business ownership?
(Points : 5)
Sole proprietorships
Partnerships
Corporations
Joint ventures
6. (TCO 4) Which of the following acts was written to prevent large businesses from forming trusts?
(Points : 5)
Clayton Act
Federal Trade Commission Act
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
7. (TCO 4) Bankruptcy remains on a credit report for how many years?
(Points : 5)
3 years
5 years
7 years
9 years
8. (TCO 4) Peter Drucker stated that businesses have _______ basic functions.
(Points : 5)
Two
Three
Four
Five
9. (TCO 4) Managing inventory can be compared to which of the following?
(Points : 5)
A balancing act
Preparing for a test
Driving a bus
Lion taming
10. (TCO 4) What is the key word in evaluating a channel of distribution? (Points : 5)
Location
Plastics
Competition
Efficiency
11. (TCO 4) A long-term agreement to rent a building, equipment, or other assets is known as a:
(Points : 5)
Lease
Rental contract
Legally liable contract
Business contract
12. (TCO 4) Consumers typically do not want the cheapest product available; they want the:
(Points : 5)
Best product for the highest price
Most reasonable product at the highest price
Most reasonable product at the lowest price
Best product for the most reasonable price
13. (TCO 4) The point at which total cost equals total revenue and the business is neither making or losing money is known as the _______.
(Points : 5)
Profit area
Loss area
Breakeven point
Profit point
14. (TCO 2) Through the franchise agreement, the ________ gains the benefit of the parent company's expertise, experience, management systems, marketing, and financial help.
(Points : 5)
Franchisor
Franchisee
Leaser
Lessee
15. (TCO 2) The financial document that is used by startup businesses to show where capital comes from and for what it will be used is called:
(Points : 5)
Cash-flow statement
Projected earnings statement
Sources and uses of funds
Income statement
16. (TCO 2) Which of the following is not included in the marketing plan section of the business plan?
(Points : 5)
How sales forecasts will be reached
Marketing objectives
Identification of potential markets
Cash-flow statements
17. (TCO 3) When analyzing financial statements, remember that profits can be increased and expenses can be decreased to make the records look better __________.
(Points : 5)
In the short run
In the long run
For tax purposes
For bank audits
18. (TCO 3) In the chapter opener, what was the limitation that kept Philip Rosedale from creating Second Life when he first had the idea for it?
(Points : 5)
He didn't have enough money.
He didn't know how to promote it.
Computers were not powerful enough at the time.
Some technical gadget like a flux capacitor needed to be invented first.
19. (TCO 3) Most Inc. 500 companies receive more than half of their revenue from:
(Points : 5)
Their local area
Their regional area
Outside their home regions and internationally
A 100-mile proximity of their business
20. (TCO 3) Computers, office equipment, and furniture are all examples of ________ that have a life of more than one year.
(Points : 5)
Current assets
Current liabilities
Capital equipment assets
Investments
21. (TCO 5) Mintzberg suggested several important skills a manager needed in order to perform the four functions of management. The most important of these was listed as
(Points : 5)
Carrying out negotiations
Motivating subordinates
Making decisions in conditions of extreme ambiguity in allocating resources
Being willing to continually learn on the job
22. (TCO 5) Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory ranks the highest level of needs as what?
(Points : 5)
Physiological
Safety and security
Esteem
Self-actualization
23. (TCO 5) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission _______ that the information from a job analysis be used to ensure equal employment opportunity.
(Points : 5)
Strongly urges and sometimes requires
Always requires
Urges
Does not care
24. (TCO 6) A production process that operates for long periods of time without interruption is known as?
(Points : 5)
Analytic system
Synthetic system
Continuous process
Intermittent process
25. (TCO 6) Scheduling is necessary to maximize levels of: (Points : 5)
Efficiency and customer service
Customer service and expense
Sales and expense
Efficiency and effectiveness
26. (TCO 7) An account number of 13 would represent which of the following accounts?
(Points : 5)
Accounts payable
Accrued taxes
Insurance expense
Accounts receivable
27. (TCO 7) Equity funds never need to: (Points : 5)
Be repaid
Be accounted for
Be stated on the income statement
Be stated on the balance sheet
28. (TCO 8) About what percent of small businesses export goods and services?
(Points : 5)
10%
15%
30%
50%
29. (TCO 9) The obligation of business to maximize the positive impact it has on society while minimizing the negative impact is called:
(Points : 5)
Moral obligation
Business responsibility
Business ethics
Social responsibility
30. (TCO 9) Threats and opportunities to a business can be found in which of the following environments?
(Points : 5)
Economic and legal only
Legal and sociocultural only
Technological and competitive only
Economic, legal, sociocultural, competitive, and technological
1. (TCO 1) Compare and contrast a sole proprietorship, a partnership and a corporation. Provide examples of where you would use each structure. (Points : 14)
2. (TCO 3) Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business. Under what circumstances would one be more advantageous? (Points : 14)
3. (TCO 4) Compare and contrast Economic Order Quantity and Just-In-Time as inventory control methods. Evaluate how these control methods can improve the financial position of a small business. (Points : 14)
4. (TCO 6) Compare and contrast analytic manufacturing systems and synthetic manufacturing systems, giving an example of each. (Points : 14)
5. (TCO 9) Analyze the four levels depicted in the pyramid of social responsibility. (Points : 14)
HEQCO= Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario in partnership with the Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation, University of Toronto.
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast" - Peter Drucker.
We need to challenge impacting the system at all levels. Our institutional systems need to recognize that teamwork is necessary, that we cannot teach alone any longer and that inquiry is essential. Diverse collaboration, diverse expertise, diverse communication methods and diverse experiences are needed for our students. Everything from timetabling, booking, labels (LEC, SEM, TUT, etc), even course evaluations assume individual teaching.
In traditional institutional structures, students accept the power imbalance that reduces their own responsibility to learn. We need to empower students to accept that responsibility. Information transfer is not the sole responsibility of the content expert.
"None of us is smarter than ALL of us" - D.Kelly.
Candid Street shot, Montreal Canada.
The "Hard-Hat".
In the early years of the ship building industry, workers covered their hats with pitch (tar), and set them in the sun to cure, a common practice for dock workers in constant danger of being hit on the head by objects dropped from ship decks.
Management professor Peter Drucker credited writer Franz Kafka with developing the first civilian hard hat while employed at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia (1912), but this information is not supported by any document from his employer.
In the United States, the E.D. Bullard Company was a mining equipment firm in California created by Edward Dickinson Bullard in 1898, a veteran of the industrial safety business for 20 years. The company sold protective hats made of leather. His son, E. W. Bullard, returned home from World War I with a steel helmet that provided him with ideas to improve industrial safety. In 1919 Bullard patented a "hard-boiled hat" made of steamed canvas, glue and black paint. That same year, the U.S. Navy commissioned Bullard to create a shipyard protective cap that began the widespread use of hard hats. Not long after, Bullard developed an internal suspension to provide a more effective hat. These early designs bore a resemblance to the military M1917 "Brodie" helmet that served as their inspiration.
In the 1930's hard hats were mainly made of steel and were a requirement for such projects as the Hoover dam and the golden gate bridge. Aluminium replaced steel as the material of choice in about 1938 (except for electrical aplications where plastic was the norm (Bakelite was new back then).
Fiberglass came into use in the 1940s and Thermoplastics took over in the 1950s.
In 1997 ANSI allowed the development of a ventilated hard hat to keep wearers cooler. Accessories such as face shields, sun visors, earmuffs, and perspiration-absorbing lining cloths could also be used; today, attachments include radios, walkie-talkies, pagers, and cameras.
Another milestone was reached in 2013 with production of the MSA V-Gard GREEN Helmet, the first industrial safety product produced from nearly 100 percent renewable resources. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) construction sourced entirely from sugarcane ethanol is recyclable, reducing the carbon footprint associated with this product type.
March 08, 2014
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker
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A Saturday afternoon spent shopping with my Mom, what could be better?
Hope you all had a fantastic Saturday.
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter Drucker
Dear Students we are going to see strategic management right one of your papers and theory in IPCC right now this strategic management is journey of business towards perfection and efficiency now the chapters we are going cover now are Business Environment, Business Policy and Strategic Management, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Formation of Functional Strategy, Strategy Implementation and Control, Reaching Strategic Edge so these are the seven chapters that cover in SM, now let’s see something about pattern of SM it’s for 50 marks as everyone is aware of. Section B covers this paper answer is separate yes booklet question number A that’s our first question in this subject, which is compulsory for 15 marks right and how it is 5 questions each 3 marks, answer any 5 questions from the rest 6 and 7 marks right and 5 questions gives you 35 so totally 50 Maximum 4 mark minimum 1 mark.
Now let see business environment our first chapter. So children’s we see definition of business given by B. O. Wheeler now “Business is an institution which is perfectly organized and operated corrected, proper arrangements are made for doing business to provide goods and services to society under the incentive of private personal gain this what the wheeler said about the business.
Now see what Lui Haney said business is a human activity directed towards producing and acquiring wealth through buying and selling that means buy karo sell karo and you gain that is business now meaning of business is different for different people right let us understand Entity view->Company Corporation and few for few people it is process buying up selling products and few others its like profession or an occupation now according to peter drucker's What is business which is created by and managed by all of us group of peoples they take designs and that design ha an some of the other result or outcome of the entire business. true for each and every business. its not only profit it includes development of wealth, goodwill, societal factors, relations etc. and much much more that is business according to Peter Deuckers. right kids, now lets see the objective, basic objective kya hai.
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Peter Drucker: “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself." That's what the managers call alignment. So I went to the zoo and taught these seven pelicans all about the importance of alignment. My boss will be so proud of me...
1. Where the dice may fall, 2. pond dipping, 3. boy on beach, 4. Untouched #19 {Feminine} and BAM 44/52, 5. Faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is LOVE..., 6. Blue Skies, 7. "the best way to predict the future is to create it." ~peter drucker, 8. Sidewalk Cafe, 9. Bokeh Toes ~ 171:365, 10. wildflowers, 11. Fence Friday {Guarded Edition} 313/365, 12. Yokohama Sushi., 13. love you
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.
Peter Drucker
Trns out that this is an Alan Kay quote that has been wrongly attributted to Peter Drucker.
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"Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire."
[They converse as those who know that God hears.]
– Tertullian (ca. 150-220) , "Apologeticus", p. 36.
"To make the right decision the knowledge-worker must know what performance and results are needed... He cannot be supervised. He must direct, manage and motivate himself."
– Peter Drucker (1964), "Managing For Results", Harper & Row, New York, p. 222.
"Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture."
– Georges Duhamel, "In Defense of Letters" (1937).
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot quote
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►Update 21 January 2011
----- Original Message -----
From : Alan Stanton
To : Julie Parker, Director of Corporate Services
Sent : Monday, January 24, 2011 3:04 AM
Subject : LBH/85228 (Continued) - Couch, sheet of glass, small pile of masonry - forecourt Unit 1 Rosebery Trading Estate
Dear Ms Parker,
I apologise for bringing this to your attention again. I realise it's extremely minor compared to all the other tasks you currently have. However, it seems to be one more symptom of a systemic malaise in Property Services which you as Director may want to know about.
Also, I’ve repeatedly gone through the “proper” channels and got nowhere. So can I please ask you to read the emails below and view:
§ My photos [above] posted on Flickr on 21 January 2011.
§ Photos taken on 12 December 2010 and posted here.
§ Then photos taken on 5 December 2010 and posted here .
§ And here.
§ And lastly the photo on 4 November 2010 here.
As you'll see, the navy sofa, sheet of glass and small pile of masonry are still in place and - on 21 January - had not been cleared as promised. (I did wonder if they were taken away and later brought back; but until 1 April this seems very unlikely.)
You'll realise that in writing me emails [your staff person] refers generally to the Rosebery Industrial Estate but not, it seems, to the specific problems of the forecourt of Unit 1 - which faces into Rosebery Avenue. I gather that [some staff] don't have personal access to my photos on Flickr. Obviously it's a disadvantage if [they] are prevented from using the Internet to get practical information as and when needed.
[Your staff] passed on my last request to remove the couch, sheet of glass and masonry to "the Property Helpdesk" who "organised for the fly tipping to be removed". I assume staff at this HelpDesk don't have access to Flickr either. Otherwise I'm sure they'd have sent contractors to remove the right items from the location where I photographed them.
As the management writer Peter Drucker said: "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all’.
In this instance, it was not only useless, but time wasting and costly. Even if the council's contractors were not paid when they failed to do the task, nearly three months later there is still a continuing failure to do something straightforward and fairly simple.
Thanks
Alan Stanton
Tottenham Hale ward councillor
----- Original Message -----
From : Alan Stanton
Sent : 14 December 2010 02:34
To : Haringey Corporate Resources Department
cc.: Head of Property Services; ward councillors; Director of Corporate Services
Subject : Fly Tipping Rosebery Industrial Estate LBH/85228
Please would you look at my photos on this Flickr page. Plainly, at least until 12 December, your contractors had not removed the couch. I hope you didn't pay them.
Just as plainly, nobody has monitored this forecourt and spotted: (a) the up-ended couch; (b) a large pane of glass propped against the office wall; and (c) some pieces of masonery left on a ledge in one of the walls. Fortunately, neither were the masonry and glass spotted by someone looking to smash a window or two.
I appreciate that over the years there was a great improvement in how this forecourt is managed and kept clean. Also that funds are scarce and getting scarcer. But one very effective way to save money is to have systems which work first time.
Alan Stanton, Tottenham Hale ward councillor
----- Original Message -----
From : Haringey Property Services
To : Cllr Alan Stanton
Sent : Monday, November 22, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject : Fly Tipping Rosebery Industrial Estate LBH/85228
Dear Cllr Stanton,
Thank you for your email
The issues you have raised comprise in summary:
1. More dumping - a navy couch and some broken white board - on the forecourt outside Unit 1 Rosebery Avenue N17.
2. Can you please tell me what monitoring arrangements are in place for this forecourt?
3. Would you please confirm that routine reports from members of the public about dumping here are quickly and efficiently passed to Property Services for action?
Dealing with each of the points I would comment as follows
1. We have arranged for the fly tipping to be removed by a contractor.
2. We have in the last 2 months erected “No Dumping” signs that have been placed around the estate. The cost of having a permanently manned presence on the estate is prohibitive and would cause an unaffordable escalation in service charge costs to the tenants.
We are investigating the installation of CCTV cameras which will cover parts of the estate. There are a number of issues with installation of CCTV such as how it will be monitored and where the recording equipment will be based. There is also the need to replace tapes recording frequently. A more comprehensive solution will have to be found and consultations with relevant advisers will be programmed to take place. However, costs are an issue in the economic climate we are currently operating in both in terms of the Council’s ability to provide services and the need to keep service charge costs down for the occupying tenants.
Greater vigilance from occupying tenants will also help reduce the incidence of flying tipping as we will be re-letting units which have recently become vacant following tenant defaults to present a greater occupier presence.
3. We confirm that we will ensure that fly tipping reports are quickly dealt with by Property Services.
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So did Haringey's Property Services team get the
dumped items cleared soon after my email above?
Click this blue link to find out.
Hint. Can a fish win the Tour de France?
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Repensar els lideratges, speech final a càrrec de Xavier Marcet, consultor i president de Lead to Change i de la Barcelona Peter Drucker Society.
March 21-25, 2016
SUNY Korea 2016 Spring RC Lecture Series "Connective Leadership"
by Dr.Charles Kim from Peter Drucker School
Stony Brook University
The State University of New York, Korea
This week’s guest is Rick Wartzman. Rick is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. Before taking this post, he worked for two decades as a newspaper reporter, editor and business columnist. He began his career in 1987 at The Wall Street Journal, where he served in a variety of positions, including White House correspondent, Houston bureau chief, and founding editor of the paper’s weekly California section.
He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2002 as business editor, and in that role helped shape “The Wal-Mart Effect,” a three-part series that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He then became editor of the newspaper’s Sunday magazine, West, which under his leadership was named by the Missouri School of Journalism as the best regularly scheduled feature supplement in America. He is the co-author, with Mark Arax, of the best-seller The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire, which was selected as one of the ten best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. It also won, among other honors, a California Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His most recent book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, was published by PublicAffairs in September 2008.
You can read some of Rick’s recent columns for Business Week here.
For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode:
Jackson, Michigan
Obscene in the Extreme by Rick Wartzman
Dust Bowl
Detroit Unemployment Rate
Detroit Electricians Rewire Flooded Iowa City
Harley Shaiken
Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad
Rage Against the Machine - Ghost of Tom Joad
So What’s a Toxic Asset?
Credit Default Swaps
Mortgage Backed Securities
AIG Bonus Outrage
Peter Drucker
Drucker Institute
Claremont Graduate University
Drucker Archives
Rick Wartzman Named Director of the Drucker Institute
Los Angeles Times To Launch West Magazine
The New America Foundation
AIG and Drucker’s Glimpse At A Very Dark Place
What Would Peter Drucker Say?
Put A Cap on High CEO Pay
Invisible Hand
Free Market
Letting US Automakers Fail
The Dillema For US Car Workers
Employee Free Choice Act
Great Depression
New Deal
The First 100 Days
FDR Court Packing Fiasco
Is Obama Doing Too Much?
Six Rules for Presidents
What Obama Shouldn’t Do
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
Multitasking Is Counterproductive
Obama on 60 Minutes
London Business School
Above All Do No Harm
Managing Organizations
Organized Abandonment
Los Angeles Times
Spanish Language Newspapers Still Growing in US
Rocky Mountain News To Close
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Prints Final Edition
Out With The Dead Wood For Newspapers
San Diego Paper Lands Fire Sale Buyer
Google Dubbed Internet Parasite
Pasadena Paper May Outsource “Local” Coverage
Steering Clear of A Downward Jobs Spiral
Big Sunday
Randye Hoder
Gordon Gekko
Greed Is Good
Merle Haggard
Johnny Cash
Steve Earle
Elvis Costello
The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman
Rick Wartzman on The Patt Morrison Show (requires Real Audio)
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Top Picks of the Business Twitterati
Are you looking for a Christmas present for the entrepreneur or business person in your life? Or treating yourself to a last minute stocking filler? Invaluable for wisdom, a business book could be just what you need to kick start a successful new year.
To find out some of the best business books on the market, we handpicked some of the best smallbiz, startup and online sales experts on Twitter, and asked them which book they’d personally recommend. Below are the experts and their suggestions.
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Joost de Valk is the face behind Yoast and is an SEO expert, best know for his essential perfectly tuned SEO Wordpress plugin. His book suggestion is Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. Describing it as "The most important book any web guy will ever read." This book is essential for anyone with a website. Improving your web design and usability will literally pay you dividends.
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Our next tweet came in from Oli Barrett, one of the masterminds behind Tenner Tycoon and WebMission and an all-round enterprising and start-up expert. Oli gave us two suggestions: The first is the classic How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Despite it's great age (written in 1936), it’s an essential on any businessperson’s bookshelf and was written to help the reader develop their self-confidence and assertiveness. Oli’s second suggestion is Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure by Tim Harford. Published in 2011, Harford’s book successfully guides the reader through the concept that many successes only become so, due to the age old process of trial and error.
Andrew Isaacs, solicitor and pioneer of a local social media sensation called #Doncasterisgreat also highlighted the importance of confidence in his suggestion. Andrew suggests the infamous Paul McKenna’s Change Your Life in Seven Days. Thousands testify that McKenna’s book helped develop their happiness, confidence and in turn positively impacted upon their business success.
Next, we had two further suggestions from Michael Chitty. Mike is a champion of community and local enterprise and entrepeneurship. Mike’s first suggestion was that classic text, Innovation and Entrepeneurshipby Peter Drucker. Drucker highlights the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship as key to business and how both qualities can be achieved. Mike second suggestion is Tom Peters' The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence at Work. This book is one of the essentials for understanding modern business principles and Peters compelling and alternative style, sets it apart from other business books.
Tony Robinson OBE is an expert in enterprise and entrepreneurship and has earned the coveted OBE for his services to small firms and training. He suggested a number of great books for our list and we decided Emma Jones’ forward thinking Go Global was the best fit. Jones, the founder of Enterprise Nation talks the reader through modern international trade and how to succeed.
Warren Knight, social media and social commerce entrepreneur also offered up the excellent Sean McPheat’s eSelling which tells businesspeople how to succeed in the modern sales environment. This book presents some revolutionary new tactics for increasing your sales and keeping them high.
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We were thrilled to be given a suggestion from the inspirational Will King, founder of the King of Shaves. Will suggested new release Zoom! by Sanders and Sloly which focuses on quick methods to make your business a success.
Creative technologist and web entrepreneur Rob Wilmot, suggested the intriguing ReWork by 37 signals founders Fried and Hansson. This book shows the reader how to modify their attitudes and techniques to change the way they work for the better and forever.
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Lastly from our own Clare Edwards who was inspired by Turn Your Idea or Invention into Millions to create the innovative design company and award winning Trabasack (ideal as a kindle bag for this lot!). Don Krakes book shares his experience of launching a new product with tips on researching, patenting, manufacturing, funding and promoting an invention.
We think these are some of the best business books on the market which no entrepreneur, smallbiz owner or online retailer should be without. We have created a convenient list on Amazon under 'Business Books of The Twitterati'. Many grateful thanks to our esteemed business contributors.
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