Background:
There is an emerging knowledge base on the effectiveness of strategies to close the knowledge-practice gap. However, less is known about how attributes of an innovation, and other contextual and situational factors facilitate and impede an innovationas adoption. The Healthy Heart Kit (HHK) is a risk management and patient education resource for the prevention of [...]

One of them is the history it provides of the company that we see today as Dun & Bradstreet. It’s motto is Decide with Confidence and they one of the first companies to be in the information game.In 1841, Lewis Tappan and his Mercantile Agency was the first modern credit bureau. In effect, Tappan established [...]

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson released the following statement after Congress’s passage of the financial rescue package.
By acting this week, Congress has proven that our Nation’s leaders are capable of coming together at a time of crisis, even at a critical stage of the political calendar, to do what is necessary to stabilize our financial system [...]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson said he and his Group of Seven counterparts had agreed to an “aggressive” plan to deal with a financial turmoil that has quickly ballooned into a “global event.” While the U.S. has come up with its own bank rescue plan, Paulson said other countries are considering options appropriate to their own [...]

Modern mom and pop franchise marketing has morphed into a Confidence Game.

Heading into a worldwide depression is the LAST time to invest in any business opportunity.

If you want to spend 13:31 minutes seeing what it’s all about, click here for 1st clip of the movie called The Grifters. And then here for the 2nd 3:31 [...]

The People’s Bank of China released the following statement on Saturday morning in response to the passage of the U.S. financial rescue package. China’s financial markets opened lower Monday after being closed last week for a national holiday.
The Chinese government has been closely following the development and consequences of the U.S. financial crisis. Recently, the [...]

Over at the Economist, a blog item flags the eerie parallels between the current crisis and the one they described on November 23, 1929, excerpted below:
“A prolonged upward movement…has been built up over a series of years on the amazing and unexampled prosperity of America. But some two years ago the speculative movement seemed [...]

I believe modern mom-and-pop franchising has largely morphed into a Big Con.
Illusion of Legitimacy: The methods of the confidence game have evolved into a much more difficult fraud to deal with because there is very little difference in the look of a blatant scam and a legitimate business format franchise.
Anyone who says you can tell [...]

Naval leaders must execute two great tasks simultaneously: 1) fight today’s war; and 2) position themselves for an uncertain future. They also face additional pressures that charge them to be better stewards of taxpayer dollars, with greater efficiency leading to improved effectiveness.
This has led to the pursuit of the following Navy mission: creation of greater [...]