Description: EATWHATEVER is a two-step breath-freshening product created four years ago by a then-26-year-old Australian expatriate named Jacqui Rosshandler. Starting with $60,000 in capital, contracting out production and working solo from her New York apartment, Ms. Rosshandler and her company, Jacquii L.L.C., managed to grab a promising but tenuous toehold in the billion-dollar breath-freshening industry… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Leadership
Big plans for 2013? Start the year with a ‘mental detox’
Description: The St. Louis Cardinals’ mental fitness coach explains how to boost your brain’s performance. Plus, new research on making resolutions stick. Source: Fortune.com Date: Jan 02, 2013 Link: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/02/new-year-resolutions/?iid=F_F500M Questions for Discussions: Try these suggestions. What do you think of them? What other ideas would you suggest that follow the same themes?
A port strike could cost billions
Description: As longshoremen from Maine to Texas negotiate into the final days, a threatened port strike could hit U.S. retailers, truckers and farmers. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 27, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/12/27/n-ports-docks-strike-economic-damage.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: What are the issues in this conflict? What are the ethical and social issues that transcend the parties… Read more »
A Zuckerberg Christmas Photo Tests Online Privacy
Description: It’s become almost axiomatic that Facebook (FB) privacy settings are so complicated that even relatively savvy users get tripped up by them, especially since the giant social network has a reputation for changing them without warning, resetting defaults, and so on. In a deliciously ironic illustration of this phenomenon, Randi Zuckerberg—sister of Facebook co-founder… Read more »
The Worst Commissioner in Professional Sports
Description: In case you missed the latest news – – the National Hockey League has a hard enough time getting people to pay attention when games are actually being played –Commissioner Gary Bettman went nuclear last week, filing a lawsuit against his own players. Source: Bloomberg.com Date: Dec 19, 2012 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/the-worst-commissioner-in-professional-sports.html Questions for Discussions:… Read more »
Retailers Take On the Risk of Same-Day Shipping
Description: Ivy Wu did not immediately need the navy lace cocktail dress she ordered the other day. But when a representative from Shoptiques, an e-commerce site, arrived at her Midtown office with the dress only hours after Ms. Wu, 26, had placed her order, “I was really impressed that it was here,” she said. Source:… Read more »
5,500 people fund Made in USA undies
Description: Flint and Tinder used Kickstarter to bring men’s underwear manufacturing back to the US, but was surprised by the challenges they encountered. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 17, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2012/12/17/t-kickstarter-flint-tinder.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: How did this company get the needed financing to succeed? How did this approach to financing dove-tail with… Read more »
Instagram Does Damage Control. Can It Keep Its Core Users?
Description: Once Instagram courted professional photographers. On Dec. 17, it kicked them in the teeth—or so the reaction to the photo-sharing site’s new terms of service suggests. On Instagram, professional photographers were not pleased. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 18, 2012 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-18/instagram-does-damage-control-dot-can-it-keep-its-core-users#r=hp-lst Questions for Discussions: What happened in this management decision-making fiasco? Do you think… Read more »
Anti-Gravity Innovation
Description: Bloomberg Enterprise is your exclusive look at the leadership and strategy behind America’s most intriguing and growing businesses. This week, how Alter-G founder Sean Whalen is defying gravity with his father’s space-age idea. Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Dec 12, 2012 Link: http://bloom.bg/VW7Nzj#ooid=Z5YTBsNzq5GPGYjbHWD0nCyEvAxQtIt8 Questions for Discussions: What are the product development possibilities for… Read more »
EA’s Moore Says Mobile Gaming Future of Industry
Description: Peter Moore, chief operating officer at Electronics Arts Inc., talks about the transition to mobile gaming and EA’s games. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” Bloomberg’s Deirdre Bolton also speaks. Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Dec 07, 2012 Link: http://bloom.bg/UCDhpx#ooid=Rsd2JsNzqa56Bz9ML2QeDhgQtZjqUG1i Questions for Discussions: Summarize the trends taking place in… Read more »
