by Don Chinnici | Apr 20, 2013 | Capital and Finance
Gold, as a commodity, is one of the world’s oldest standards of value. Values rise and fall; however one of the most compelling arguments right now, is whether or not its price is being manipulated — in a downward way. I’ve read a number of articles...
by Don Chinnici | Apr 3, 2013 | Consulting
I’ve long said that “sales” is really only helping people find what they’re looking for. But usually, people have different personality types that dictate how they prefer the transaction: Some, for example, prefer quick; and others more methodical. But importantly,...
by Don Chinnici | Mar 29, 2013 | Consulting
An interesting perspective is probed in the article below: the concept that annual performance reviews may be detrimental to a company. This annual walk-on-coals may actually do more to kill productivity and morale, than it brings to the company in review benefit....
by Don Chinnici | Mar 12, 2013 | All Other Blog, Favorite Blog
Just for fun: If you are interested in linguistics and dialects, as in that 1937 Gershwin tune, you may like this article: It’s written by a Harvard professor, Bert Vaux (and former student, now at MIT), who has studied and mapped dialects in various geographic...
by Don Chinnici | Feb 25, 2013 | Consulting
For those who track the Consulting area of this blog, this is another article addressing good management. I love the quote at the article outset from Einstein: laying out the priorities that understanding a problem correctly is foundational to solving it correctly....
