Jeffrey R. Scharf: Everybodyâs Business
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Privatization of Social Security is in the wind. For weeks, the Bush administration has been filling the sky with trial balloons. Unfortunately, the proposals being floated do little to address the two fundamental flaws of Social Security.
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A veteran of the dot-com boom, Wayne McVicker, offers a few tips for business owners in a new book, Starting Something: An Entrepreneur&#39;s Tale of Control, Confrontation &amp; Corporate Culture.
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Aligning technology and business â what a concept. Everyone is talking about it, but to put things in perspective, I imagine the day after the wheel was invented the wife of the inventor got sick and tired of watching her husband roll it down the hill all day. She probably said, âCyxny, honey, why donât you make another one and put them on the cart?â
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Science & environment: Billionaire inventor wants the addictive office tool to run every family's day.
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Can years and years of thinking about investing and personal finance be boiled down to a few essentials for everyone?
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The care and feeding of end users is a delicate business. Herewith, some tips for keeping everyone happy in their cages, er, cubicles.
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Jeff Jarvis, whose mind occupies the intersection of mainstream media and the blogging world, perhaps more than any other person, is having a conference in mid-October in NYC to bring together people from both worlds to present constructive ideas for working with each other. Me, my feet are firmly planted in the blogging world, but I've spent a lifetime reading and watching MSM, starting with the NY Times at the kitchen table with my parents and brother, when growing up. Some of my fondest memories as a child were our discussions of the days events, and the Times was our common structure. Everyone in our family read the newspaper, often from cover to cover.  As Jarvis councils us, never mind the mistakes, what can we do to make things work better? And I have a couple of proposals in that direction that I will try to present at the October 11 conference. In all cases, they involve the MSM opening up more to include not only the ideas of blogging, but also the bodies of the bloggers.  1. I've said it many times before, it's worth raising again. Any newspaper or radio or TV station with a good reputation in its community could embrace the fresh ideas of the bloggers in their community by offering free blogs to members of the community, who may be new to blogging. I suggested this to the Times in 2001 -- when a person is quoted in a Times article, a few days after the piece runs, contact them, and ask if they'd like to have a NY Times hosted blog. There would be no control over what appeared on the blog. It would have a nytimes.com domain (something like bullmancuso.nytimes.com). Build an aggregator, something very much like Twitter (which is after all, a river of news, not exactly a new idea, heh) that shows all the new posts from members of the community. Encourage (but don't require) your editorial people to read the blog posts. Let whatever happens happen.  2. Here's a new idea that I haven't proposed before. Open your newsroom to bloggers. Set aside a half-dozen desks for people who blog in your community, people you've gotten to know, and provide them with wifi, a water cooler, your coffee (no matter how bad it is) and chance to work alongside your editorial people and (very important) with each other. It's an incredible thing when bloggers get together in a physical space, the sparks can really fly. Now imagine what could happen if those sparks got flying between the remaining editorial people in a professional news organization and the bloggers. I believe the secret of scaling the news is right there, you just have to open the door and see what comes in.
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A serial entrepeneur, Roy Caro has launched a handful of flourishing business on three continents. For his latest endeavor, Caro revisited his familyâs heritage when he launched the Celadon Collection, an elegant furniture boutique in downtown Montreal, Canada. And his thriving business runs completely on an elegant collection of Mac computers. âA revelation, crucial to our rapid success and development,â Caro attributes that success to the accessibility of the Mac, the availability of such excellent business tools as the intutive Xsilva Lightspeed POS software, and âall the Apple software I now use in every single aspect of my business.â
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These days, capital and goods cross borders with ease. Lant Pritchett says that if the developing worldâs workers could do the same, everyone would benefit.
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Don't let one person control the purse strings. Get everyone involved.
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By DIRK LAMMERS, AP Business WriterSIOUX FALLS, S.D.
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Steve Schwarzman reveals his keys to getting rich.
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The world is a different place, full of companies that recognize their obligations to all investors, not just the privileged few. Or is it really so different?
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ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD How the Forbes 400 Make -- and Spend -- Their Fortunes
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Business & money: Business sees new ways of reaching consumers - and their own workers.
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See what it takes to run a company at the perpetual brink of red ink.
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Innovation has become an all-purpose tonic, the default prescription for every pain associated with the retrenching American economy. Whatever the problem -- slower growth, global competition, fewer well-paying jobs -- innovating, we are told, is the solution.