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Flattener #5: Outsourcing
Globalization has been brutal to midwestern manufacturers like the Paper Converting Machine Co. For decades, PCMC's Green Bay (Wis.) factory, its oiled wooden factory floors worn smooth by work boots, thrived by making ever-more-complex equipment to weave, fold, and print packaging for everything from potato chips to baby wipes. But PCMC has fallen on hard times. First came the 2001 recession. Then, two years ago, one of the company's biggest customers told it to slash its machinery prices by 40% and urged it to move production to China.
The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com
On the Internet everyone gets 15 minutes of fame, but some people get a whole lot more. A kid with a webcam can become a movie star; an entrepreneur with a smart idea can get on Oprah; a tech blogger can reach a bigger audience than a bestselling novelist. For the Forbes Web Celeb 25, we track the biggest and brightest stars on the Internet, the people who have turned their passions into new media empires. From stay-at home-moms to geek entrepreneurs, these are the people capturing eyes, influencing opinion and creating the new digital world. More… The Web Celeb 25
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45 Years of Wal-Mart History: A Technology Time Line CIO
CIO — Sam Walton's self-described distrust of computers didn't keep him from building his company into a global leader of information technology innovation. First Wal-Mart opens in Rogers, Ark. With more than 125 stores and $340.3 million in sales, Wal-Mart leases an IBM 370/135 computer system to maintain inventory control for all merchandise in the warehouse and distribution centers and to prepare income statements for each store. Electronic cash registers in more than 100 Wal-Mart stores record point-of-sale (POS) data to maintain inventory. Wal-Mart builds a companywide computer network and deploys a system for ordering merchandise from suppliers.
Top 10 Websites - 2012
TED City 2.0 thecity2.org In a surprise move, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), the influential thought-leader lecture series, awarded its annual prize, meant to spotlight and reward "exceptional individuals," not to a person, but to an idea. The "recipient" of this year's $100,000 prize money and traditional "One Wish to Change the World," is the City 2.0, the "inclusive, innovative, healthy, soulful, thriving" future of the city. The companion to the prize is a website similar in ambition to New York City's Change by Us, but globally oriented to "Combine the reach of the cloud with the power of the crowd. Connect leaders, experts, companies, organizations and citizens.
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Offshoring ... benefits the consumer'
'Offshoring ... benefits the consumer' Many CEOs believe philosophically in offshoring — the practice of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries where labor costs are cheaper — but few have been brave enough to publicly say it. Being in favor of exporting jobs is radioactive. Enter Uwe Doerken, 45, who stepped down last year as DHL's executive chairman after leading its globalization efforts for 13 years. DHL is a package delivery company known for its yellow planes, trucks and envelopes.
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What an exciting week! It was an honor to participate in the #DoingItAll series on the TODAY Show in support of Maria Shriver’s important, groundbreaking, The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink. Many of you have asked for links to the segments and key takeaways…so here you go! Tuesday: Two Amazing Women #DoingItAll First, on Tuesday, I worked with two truly remarkable women who epitomize what it means to “do it all.”
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Reduce Stress by Pursuing Four-Way Wins The pendulum is finally swinging back from the apogee of complete immersion in work as the business ideal. A great hue and cry now strains to contain our out-of-control culture of overwork. We know it reduces productivity, destroys civic engagement, and produces all manner of stress-related health problems. The good news is that you can do something about it, for yourself and for your employees. You can be less stressed and more productive by spending less time on and less attention to work — while being more engaged with your family, your community, and the things you do for just you.
The Juggle
Credit: Anne Joyce Alison Heller, the author, wrote her first novel while juggling parenthood and her full-time job. by Alison Heller In 2010 I ran my own business – a divorce mediation practice — and had two children under three.
The XX Factor
Thanks to the BuzzFeed quiz, we now all know which city we should live in (Paris), what kind of sandwich we are (grilled cheese), and which Twin Peaks character we are (Agent Dale Cooper). BuzzFeed quizzes exploit our urge to belong, to categorize ourselves into an identifiable group that we are instantly a part of. (Oh, you’re a Miranda? Me too!)
