For the last decade, the Gallup Organization has surveyed the people of China, as both consumers of goods and employees of the companies that produce those goods. The data provide a unique picture of changing consumer attitudes, market opportunities, and management challenges. EVER SINCE CHINA BEGAN TO EMERGE FROM ITS MAOIST COCOON by welcoming [...]
By Randall D Barfield This story was told to me by my friend Marcie McGrath, who heard it from a friend of hers whose name is Penelope, but I can’t remember the last name. Well, Penelope had had a dream one night when her son, Darius, was about 8 years old. In the dream she [...]
By S G Cardin Sergei Pakil walked into the royal bedroom and went directly to the closet, pulling out those clothes his sovereign would wear for the day. Czar Paul I preferred military uniforms. His fascination with the armed forces was well known. Paul was always kind with him, but he could be rather mercurial [...]
For all the disregard evoked by their name, the neglected diseases—which include AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other tropical scourges such as leishmaniasis, Buruli ulcer, and Chagas’ disease—have been receiving a lot of attention of late. The current wave of interest began in February, 2005, with a campaign led by scientists to promote a global trade [...]
One editor at The Lancet once worked for a psychiatrist who had a large couch in his study. The temptation to recline was not for the purpose of psychoanalysis, or any other moral misdemeanour. Every day after lunch he would take a 30 minute nap. His rule was that he should not be disturbed on [...]
By Deborah Russell I Think I Did Think I imagined things, like I was able to predict a future I think I did think (I was prepared for most situations) Now I laugh, wonder, who the hell did I think I was? It’s Not The finality – I watch from the door to your room [...]
Stacked by the door of a shabby supermarket in the impoverished east of the giant Brazilian city of Sao Paulo was a pile of tins of condensed milk, each bound with a red ribbon, tied in a bow. “Make your mother happy on Mothering Sunday”, said the sign, against a picture of a smiling woman [...]
Look out 10 years from now. What will the home audio industry look like? Wellikoff: Ten years from now we tiiay well see the following changes within our industry: • A weeding out of small tnanufacturers that don’t have access to advanced technology ot sophisticated design. • A weeding out of retailers that haven’t successfully [...]
By Evan M Horetsky I sing of farms and of a lamb: his lust has fallen upon him war! Armies swarming with war-torn horns thrusting at his homeland’s door. Bound by hate and confounded by treason, This sheep finds too late that passion rules reason. His friend, now foe, fights for the frail reward, Rumbling [...]
Trainers spent the decade convincing executives that training positively influences productivity. THE “ME DECADE” of the 1970s was full of mood rings, lava lamps, leisure suits, and platform shoes.But for workplace learning and performance professionals, the decade was all about an economic recession that reduced personnel, not workloads. It was about a movement by [...]