Hyundai continues to innovate ways to differentiate and deliver its brand; its latest effort is an offer to guarantee a year's worth of gas locked-in at $1.49/gallon.
The idea, while a copy of something similar Chrysler tried last year, comes on the heels of its promise to buy cards back from buyers if they lose their jobs. Oh, and it happens to be building high-quality, rather stylin' cars, too.
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New ventures, start ups, whatever you call them are unique and extremely important to us all: Every company, every commercial value-adder, the core of wealth creation, started up once. And it would be safe to assume that much of the shareholder's wealth is created in the early growth phase.
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I was recently a guest on Kansas City current affairs show Up to Date on Kansas City NPR affiliate, KCUR. My co-guest was Michael Zimmer of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who is an expert on issues of ethics, privacy and the web.
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The Only Once blog has a great posting today about the need to 'Shoot to score' and anyone who leads an independent entrepreneurial driven organization will understand what this means.
You Have to Shoot to Score
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How often we hear that managers complain about their innovative ideas are not heard and that everyone is only interested in the immediate bottom line?
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New neuroscience research shows that older individuals are less affected by the possibility of losing money than younger people. Gains, meanwhile, are equally attractive to both groups.
Gregory Larkin at Stanford University in California, US, and colleagues compared the way the over 65s respond to losing and winning, compared with people aged between 19 and 27.
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