business

The Experience Economy and the New Rich

Posted Fri, 02/26/2010 - 18:35 by J. Adams

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage by Gilmore and Pine has quickly become one of my favorite books, alongside another very popular book, The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris. Both books feature what I believe to be some of the more unique, and applicable, thinking about the world in the new millennium that we find ourselves now a part of in everyday life. Let me describe to you, briefly, why:

Dan Pink TED Talk on Motivation

Posted Fri, 09/04/2009 - 09:22 by J. Adams

This talk from author Dan Pink (I don't know much about him yet) seems to be right on the money (or lack thereof)!

Online Personal Information - How Much Is Too Much?

Posted Thu, 07/24/2008 - 20:59 by J. Adams

An interesting Web 2.0 way of offering online banking to customers is being offered to customers of a large Latin America bank, BBVA that may change the old-school way of banking - or will it?

Visa IPO is a success... or is it?

Posted Wed, 03/19/2008 - 21:27 by J. Adams

I had no clue that Visa was 1) not already a publicly traded company, and 2) that they were going to become a publicly traded company today, however; apparently they are and they did. According to the Financial Times article about Visa's record-breaking IPO today, the strong performance of Visa's business helped propel them to a $56B+ market cap, but is this good for the economy in the long run?

Microsoft, It's All About Perspective

Posted Fri, 03/07/2008 - 07:46 by J. Adams

When you look at the stock prices of Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! during the past 5 years it appears quite apparent why Microsoft recently bid $44.6B to buyout Yahoo! - Microsoft has performed poorly compared to Yahoo!

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