The Real Purpose of Business: Four Presentations

By:

Enrique Suarez

"The key problem in the American business world today is that we've lost sight of what business is all about. We think it's about accumulating financial wealth and shareholder value, but the fundamental purpose of business, going back thousands of years in human experience, is to meet human economic needs by cultivating creative human talent."

Portland State University professor Tom Johnson

“The way society is organized is due to the

Fake news is a problem that is taking the internet by storm, and it ran rampant during the 2016 Presidential Election. In fact, many believe that fake news stories had a strong impact on the outcome of the election. In a survey following the election by the Pew Research Center, a whopping 64 percent of polled Americans said that fake news has given them a “great deal of confusion” about current events.

All of us have been fooled by fake news, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, anytime soon

“Fake News”: The Latest Weapon in Information Space

By Tony Cartalucci

Global Research, January 16, 2017

The ability for technology and innovations to transform global economics and geopolitics is often underestimated, even sidelined in retrospect.

However, from the technological achievements that gave the British Empire mastery over the seas, to the industrial revolution that eventually disrupted and unraveled the empire’s carefully constructed global system of mercantilism, the march of technolog

Introduction to the Sales and Marketing Machine

Source:

David Skok

for Entrepreneurs

Building a Sales and Marketing Machine is a structured methodology for designing and reviewing your customer acquisition process. It stresses the idea that the only right way to build a sales and marketing process is to design it around your customers (customer-centric). Although this is obvious, it turns out to be radically different to the way most companies have designed their processes, which is based on what th

Think about hackers breaking into accounts. If you think they need top-notch computer skills, you would be wrong. These days, instead of requiring skills behind a keyboard, hackers generally rely on strategy…specifically a strategy called social engineering. This means that hackers don’t have to be technical, but they DO have to be clever and crafty because they are essentially taking advantage of people and “tricking” them into giving information.

There are four main ways that hackers use social

As the FRTB implementation race begins, it is crucial that banks now get a thorough understanding of the structure of trading desks, refine operating models and the front office and transform the market risk infrastructure effectively in order to meet the so called ‘FRTB standard’. With less that 18 months to go, banks are under pressure to develop high quality and consistent projects that will minimise the risk of capital charges and ensure integrity across the front office, risk and finance de

The Global Competitiveness Report 2016–2017

Donald Trump, the Power of Big Data and Psychographics

“Mind Manipulations” to Influence Election Results

Source: Peter Koening,

Global Research, January 06, 2017

According to Peter Koenig, the truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘surprise’ election may lay somewhere else. It’s called Psychometrics, a method based on massive behavioral data collection of people to be targeted by propaganda, or more accurately expressed by mind manipulation. This PR technology has been marketed and applied by a small London-

Confronting the Tyranny of Management by Numbers: How Business Can Deliver the Results We Care About Most

Enrique R. Suarez

Business Strategy and Management Consultant

suarezenrique@yahoo.com

According to professor Thomas Johnson, it’s easy to talk about the changes wrought by today’s global economy. But most such discussions fail to address the real impact of business practices in the twenty-first century.

The growth of industrial societies during the past 150 years – and particularly the aggressive

God Does Not Exist - Stephen Hawking and my Response

As you will see in the below video, Mr. Hawking asserts that when people ask whether God created the universe, this question does not make sense for him because time did not exist before the Big Bang so according to Mr. Hawking "there is not time for God, therefore there is not time to make the universe in". Mr. Hawking also asserted that we are each free to believe what we want, but his simple explanation is that "there is not God and that no

Over the past 30+ years, businesses have spent billions on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates. Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if) a predictive talent acquisition strategy can include the use of pre-hire assessments? As costs of failed new hires continue to rise, recruiters and hiring managers are looking for any kind of pre-hire information to increase the probability of making a great hire.
For All of the Marketing Hype, all Predictive

Are We More Civilized Today than We Were in 400 B.C.E.?

More than just a venture fund or business catalyst, Sprocket allows startups and early stage companies to leverage the power of the crowd.

Sprocket is the "missing link" in the support of startup and early stage companies. When investors invest, they want to know what kind of safeguards the venture has in place to mitigate risk of loss. When you have what's called "social proof", you help mitigate that risk. Sprocket is the platform to gain social support, and proof for your idea, startup or e

A letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter: about The Universal Force which is LOVE

Reposted from: https://suedreamwalker.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/a-letter-from-albert-einstein-to-his-daughter-about-the-universal-force-which-is-love/

In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, with orders not to publish their contents until two decades after his death. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein.More can be f

What are the 10 Biggest Global Challenges?

Written by:

Rosamond Hutt

Thursday 21 January 2016

Source: World Economic Forum

Whether it’s turning promises on climate change into action, rebuilding trust in the financial system, or connecting the world to the internet, the World Economic Forum has singled out 10 key global challenges that, if they are to be addressed, require cooperation from the public and private sectors.

The link below is a guide to the 10 challenges, and why they matter to the world.

World’s Richest Increased their Wealth by $237 Billion in 2016

Sources:

Nick Beams

World Socialist Web Site 29 December 2016

Global Research, December 29, 2016

The world’s wealthiest 200 billionaires increased their net worth by $237 billion in 2016, taking their total wealth to $4.4 trillion as of the close of trading on Tuesday, an overall increase for the year of 5.7 percent, according to calculations by Bloomberg.

The major factor in the wealth increase is the surge in the US stock market since th

In their book In Search of Excellence, McKinsey consultants Tom Peters and Robert Waterman found 8 common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of 14 identified companies of “excellence.” The framework is known as the 8 Attributes of Management Excellence. The research and theorizing of this framework was based on the McKinsey 7-S Model, also authored by Peters and Waterman.

The 8 attributes are:

• A Bias for Action
• Close to the Customer
• Autonomy and Entrepreneurship
• Productivity th

For too long, there has been an unspoken assumption in traditional risk management and regulation that organisations are quasi-mechanical and that decision making is essentially rational.  The implication is that you if can devise the right rules, risks will disappear because people will respond to them logically.

A little while back I blogged about using pull strategies over push strategies when looking to influence and ultimately persuade decision makers in your business (Stop Pushing and Start Pulling – It’s more satisfying). The easiest of the three pull strategies (Desirability, Likeability and Reciprocity) is RECIPROCITY. The act of giving a gift which creates a feeling of need to reciprocate with a gift of similar “value”.

With all the gift giving that is going on for Christmas, it got me thinking a