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Sallie Krawcheck

Private banks like to say they put their clients first. But the resignation of Sallie Krawcheck from Citigroup shows that products often get first priority.
An article in today?s Wall Street Journal by my colleague David Enrich says Ms. Krawcheck–probably the highest-ranking woman on Wall Street–resigned over a spat with Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit. [...]

Il Duce means leader in Italian.
It is a term that is often applied by those that choose to influence others in a dictatorial manner.
A national franchise association assists the setting up and marketing of business format franchises in that country.
They lobby and represent the franchisors’ view and oppose franchisees when their interests are in conflict [...]

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Why not contract with someone to shame them into giving your money back?
The Globe and Mail has as an interesting article called Dressed to embarass: Spanish collection agency sends out men in top hats and tails to humilate debtors into paying up.
It seems a collection agency with over 600 employees in Spain and Portugal [...]

U.S. senator Sam Brownback has charged China with installing Internet-spying equipment in all major hotel chains serving the Beijing Olympics, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. The conservative Republican cited hotel documents he received, stating that all guests at hotels where Olympic visitors are staying “will be subjected to invasive intelligence-gathering by the Chinese Public [...]

There seems to be no hope to the child of an alcoholic.  Their days could be spent taking care of the home and the substance-abusing parent.  They may be responsible for taking care of other siblings making it difficult for them to concentrate on schoolwork or even having fun with friends.  It becomes hard for [...]

New parents walk around with question marks stapled to their forehead.  Breast or bottle, work or stay at home, home school or public school, and the list goes on and on.  New parents are full of these questions and it’s important that they find reliable sources of parenting information.
Where then do they turn?  Family is [...]

Almost a year ago I wrote a post about the Bain list of management tools. Today I saw a list from a CIO Insight survey, described by my friend Allan Alter and based on a survey of 188 IT executives. The two lists had something in common: the same stuff keeps coming up.
Business [...]