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Why Do Small Companies Avoid Strategy?

Why Do Small Companies Avoid Strategy? -

Companies without a strategic plan have one foot in the grave, whether they know it or not. Yet, very few small and mid-size companies (SMBs) emphasize strategic planning. Why are so many of these companies strategically challenged, strategically averse?

Internet Advertising Will Not Be Government-Ruled (Yet)

There has been recent talk in Washington D.C. regarding regulation of Internet Advertising. This was mainly sparked by a recent advertising deal between search engine giants Google and Yahoo.

Popular belief among small online businesses who thrive on upon ads that accompany their content is that such regulation could be very damaging. If you are one of these businesses or even if you are one person trying to make money this way, this is a topic you should keep an eye out for in the news.

So far, the government (as discussed in a hearing from the U.S. House Small Business Committee yesterday) has decided that not go forward with any regulation, but some congressmen think there is room for it in the future.

PUTTING A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE?

Thanks to Fisher-Price, as babies we learn a concept that we seem to forget by the time we’re adults: you can’t put a square peg in a round hole.

We do it especially with relationships and with jobs. If we don’t know what we’re looking for, we become obscured by what we’re attracted to. And then we don’t realize we’ve reverted to pounding the round orange peg into the hole on that plastic table right in front of us when it's the square blue peg that fits.

Most people will continue to force it – and with a lot of hard work, sweat, and stress – it can be made to fit, but never very well and never for very long. Eventually that peg is going to explode out of the hole into which they’re trying to mash it.

Manager Tips

Manager Tips -

Tips To Train Toastmasters And The Reason Why How do you train someone to be a leader, or better yet, why should you? Here’s four tips to help you train them, and the imperative reason to do it. What is a toastmaster you ask? Well it’s exactly what it sounds like, the person making the toasts at a banquet and introduces the speakers. The first person everyone looks to when the room falls silent: the alpha dog, the leader.

Blogging and human rights abuse

Blogging and human rights abuse

According to the BBC News website the other day, "More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments".

The statement is based on the WIA Report 2008.

The graphic (click to enlarge) from the actual report says a lot, certainly in terms of blogging becoming a more and more dangerous activity.

Some further details courtesy of BBC News:

Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog.

In 2007 three times as many people were arrested for blogging about political issues than in 2006.

More than half of all the arrests since 2003 have been made in China, Egypt and Iran.



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