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Health care and the US economy
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
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More evidence that the most powerful nation on the planet has a completely dysfunctional health system. And another illustration of how second rate health care is hurting the US economy. It makes ...
US and China: the drug dealer-addict relationship
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...think about what the global economy will look like if China and the United States fail to fix their dysfunctional relationship. The frequent flares of social unrest in China could spread, and the gove...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
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Ratings agencies did a lot to bring on this recession by giving dysfunctional outfits a clean bill of health. Now they're being held to account, not before time. Standard & Poor's, Moo...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
...t, the financial crisis will continue. And the latest batch of bonuses suggests the banks remain as dysfunctional as ever....
Automaker bailout: at what cost?
in Sox First, on December 19, 2008
...ig concern is the signal this, combined with the $700 billion bank bailout, might send out to other dysfunctional industries. Like housing? Do they get bailouts too? As the 3BlueDudes site points o...
Will there be more Madoffs?
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
...lion fraud a sign of things to come? These are valid questions because Madoff was the product of a dysfunctional system, one that had the regulator doing nothing to protect investors because it was a...
Why did the housing meltdown happen in the US?
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
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The role of the dysfunctional US housing market is one of the fascinating parts of this global meltdown. What is it about the US that created the meltdown? What are the unique features of that mar...
Are we firing people here, or what?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 6, 2008
...and look at their departments from another angle. If the Merrill Lynch survey reflects an outmoded, dysfunctional perspective on IT headcount, at least there are signs that CIOs are beginning to under...
So What is Apoptosis?
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 19, 2008
...rmality, then it is programmed to self-destruct and undergo apoptosis. However, this mechanism gets dysfunctional in cancer, so cells that should be dying continue to live, divide, and spread.
A rec...
Pit bulls and other directors
in Sox First, on March 1, 2008
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Sitting on a dysfunctional board is soul-destroying. But what are the pathologies? Some good insights from Beverly Behan at BusinessWeek in her piece Boards Behaving Badly . Types she identifies ...
Signs of a Dysfunctional Workplace
in Businesspundit, on February 9, 2008
...HR World has a post about the top 25 signs of a dysfunctional workplace . You will probably read it and nod your head in agreement. The last one, that no one ever gets fired, relates to a job I used ...
The Age Of Turbulence
in Sox First, on January 11, 2008
When Alan Greenspan was at the height of his influence as Fed chairman, the financial news network CNBC would film him arriving for Federal Open Market Committee meetings and focus on the size of his briefcase. According to the Briefcase Indicator, if the briefcase was thin it meant that Greenspa...
What They're Saying: Message Boards
in End Zone Buzz, on January 8, 2008
... but LSU beat us in the Cotton.
3. Les Miles is a Michi-dewshe drama-queen.
4. Their fans are all dysfunctional alcoholic a$$holes." - Dick Whitecollar
- BuckeyePlanet.com : "Best team i...
Thanksgiving Day: It's About Giving Thanks, Turkey and a Parade!
in Cool Picking, on November 22, 2007
Now that it's Thanksgiving Day - or thereabouts, it's time to think about the day and its' meaning. Yes, it's a day of thanksgiving for all that we have: a place to live, a job, clothing, healthcare and of course, food to eat.
Typically it looks something like this - with lots of pe...
Interior Department - cozy with oil companies
in Sox First, on September 26, 2007
...e for a flawed information management system . What that suggests is that the Department is dysfunctional and needs urgent attention.
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Lurid Details Of Lindsay Lohan's Family
in The Celebrities Weblog, on August 17, 2007
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Source:www.celebrityway.com
Is there a more dysfunctional family in America than the Lohan clan?
Lindsay, seen here during much, much better days, has reentered rehab at a very exclusive place t...
Psychotic organizations: 5 warning signs
in Sox First, on June 18, 2007
...rs, corporate recovery specialists and accountants, I can identify five warning signs of psychotic, dysfunctional organizations: 1. Disorganization of thought processes inside the organization, par...
Speed As A Competitive Advantage
in Businesspundit, on May 23, 2007
... one advantage that the big competition can't duplicate easily. Big companies are bureaucratic, dysfunctional, and self-absorbed. They don't listen, they are slow to change, and they kill mome...
Avoid Partnership Breakdown & Control Issues
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 23, 2007
... conversations between partners that I have overheard. Now you might be thinking, "Wow, what a dysfunctional bunch!" you might be right, but what you need to remember about 'partnerships...
Are Entrepreneurs Victims of the Lake Wobegone Effect?
in Businesspundit, on November 22, 2006
...e generally, the findings also show how the use of information may lead the nascent entrepreneur to dysfunctional beliefs. In particular, the use of information in a manner consistent with an inside v...
The war in Hewlett-Packard's boardroom
in Sox First, on October 17, 2006
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The fallout from the Hewlett-Packard pretexting spying scandal continues to grow. Blame it on a dysfunctional board that made it a disaster waiting to happen. Blame it on the toxic relationships i...
Q&A: Enron juror
in Sox First, on September 15, 2006
...n shared by her fellow jurors, confirms what I have always believed are the five warning signs of a dysfunctional organisation: 1. Disorganisation of thought processes within the organisation, part...
HP's lessons for boardrooms
in Sox First, on September 15, 2006
...take a trick. Nell Minnow from The Corporate Library argues that the situation reflects a deeply dysfunctional board, one that screwed up badly by selecting Carly Fiorina as the first CEO from outs...
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Trailer
in The Gadgets Weblog, on September 7, 2006
...of info about the new "series".
As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much...
HP's phone bugging scandal: directors behaving badly
in Sox First, on September 7, 2006
Story of the week would have to be the revelations of Hewlett- Packard 's chairwoman Patricia Dunn spying on the home phone records of the company's directors, as reported in full detail the Newsweek website . Determined to find out who was leaking information to the media, Dunn c...
Snacking Off Meal Times? It's in Your Genes
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 11, 2006
...involved in these cycles is known as Period or Per genes.
This finding may go some way to explain dysfunctional eating patterns that play a role in human obesity and may also be relevant in understa...
The CEO pay problem
in Sox First, on July 5, 2006
Constantly on the ropes over their pay levels, CEOs are fighting back with the Business Roundtable releasing a study showing that their remuneration isn't that bad, reports The Wall Street Journal . You can read the entire WSJ report here . The study, based on the 350 large public compan...
Lifetime Series to Mention Perfectmatch
in The Dating Weblog, on June 5, 2006
...a season-long deal to be integrated into the storyline of Lifetime channel's new series about a dysfunctional dating service. Perfectmatch will appear as a Faceless nemesis that steals clie...
Corporate Meltdown: Watch Out For The Warning Signs
in Sox First, on May 2, 2006
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To paraphrase Tolstoy, all dysfunctional companies are dysfunctional in their own fashion. But after years of writing about them, I have always been struck by the same patterns coming up time and ...
RFID and the Dysfunctional Supply Chain
in The RFID Weblog, on April 17, 2006
Editor's Note: I am pleased to provide another guest post by popular guest blogger, Chris Kapsambelis. The author notes that there are national retail chains still doing manual tracking of their supply chains.
By Chris Kapsambelis
My wife's newly ordered treadmill showed up two week...
Buildings blocks for an ethical organisation
in Sox First, on April 13, 2006
...of a disease inside the organisation? ATTRACTA LAGAN: Whistleblowers are the ultimate symptom of a dysfunctional organisation because there should have been points before where people could have rais...
KATE MOSS MOM OF THE YEAR?
in The Celebrities Weblog, on March 19, 2006
... the cut, but Sharon Osbourne did. Yeah, two of her offspring are certainly well adjusted, if being dysfunctional, and totally without purpose, aren't factored in.
Source:www.en.wikipedia.org...
The Unpleasant Truth About Ford
in carzz.org, on January 30, 2006
...the beginning. Try this for a searing remark: "Ford basically admitted that it is functionally dysfunctional... and I am shocked at what the Ford executives put out for public consumption - and a...
BoozAllen
in Businesspundit, on December 12, 2005
...39;ve rarely see a situation where there isn't something a middle manager can do to improve a dysfunctional organization, at least at the margin. So the book (and the website: http://www.orgdna...
Business Schools Chase Rankings, Reduce Quality
in The Universities Weblog, on August 9, 2005
...r online here . For an appetizer, try the abstract :
U.S. business schools are locked in a dysfunctional competition for media rankings that diverts resources from long-term knowledge creatio...