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Business Forum articles from January 1997
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Business Forum archives from January 1997
Leadership of renewal: leadership for the 21st century. (Motorola Corp)
January 1, 1997... Motorola has a reputation of being one of the best-managed companies in the United States. The firm is now being directly challenged on many fronts, and recent erratic stock performance suggests that the company must strengthen its response to...
Radical corporate change: what seems to work - what doesn't?
January 1, 1997... Historically, planned change has been largely a rational, logical process designed to do something "to" an individual, group, or organization - to "fix it." The process started at the top with the leader saying, "Follow me, I know the way to make...
Putting meaning into corporate values.
January 1, 1997... In recent years, it has become commonplace to refer to the importance that values play in corporate governance. While others dealt with this subject, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman popularized it.(1) Management consultants and public relations firms...
Internal career development in the age of insecurity.
January 1, 1997... Although bruised, the psychological contract between workers and their employers is far from dead. However, in this age of employment insecurity, this author argues that employees need to take control of their career destiny. He proposes a...
Keys to success in today's business environment.
January 1, 1997... To ensure growth and survival in today's business environment, companies are developing new and unique approaches to attract and retain customers. These approaches are required of firms that intend to keep pace in an environment that includes...
Performance appraisals: any use for training?
January 1, 1997... The decade of the '90s has constant reminders for Americans that survival in a dynamic, global economy is becoming even more dependent on an educated, highly-skilled, well-trained work force. It has become painfully obvious that organizations are...
L.A. and California: incubator for ideas and innovations.(L.A. Forum)
January 1, 1997... Our journal was created in 1975 as Los Angeles Business & Economics to provide a forum for the discussion of business and economics issues of concern in the greater Los Angeles area. In 1982, the journal's name was changed to Business Forum to...
Electric vehicles: helping California fight the war on smog.(L.A. Forum)
January 1, 1997... The story recounted a dramatic decline in smog levels. The South Coast Air Basin, also known as Greater Los Angeles, had a record-low seven smog alerts in 1996. In 1970, the year of the first Earth Day celebration, the region had 148 smog alerts....
Electric vehicles are critical to healthful air.(L.A. Forum)
January 1, 1997... When General Motors Corporation introduced the EV-1 in the greater Los Angeles area late last year, what was only an idea for California's environmental regulators in the late 1980s suddenly became a reality.
In a stepped-up effort to reduce...
The folly of the AQMD's subsidized electric vehicle. (Air Quality Management District)(L.A. Forum)
January 1, 1997... Just as the electric appliances in the General Motors commercial rush out to catch a glimpse of the electric vehicle (EV), so are various government agencies in the State of California rushing to jump on the funding bandwagon for EVs. Although...
Web publishing is easy with Microsoft Office 95.
January 1, 1997... Technological innovations in computing and telecommunications have moved us into the age of digital media. At the same time, the World Wide Web has become a major driver for commerce and personal communications. The desire of businesses,...
Trends and turbulence on the information superhighway.
January 1, 1997... The heart of today's battle for dominance in the telecommunications industry involves a fight for access to "broadband" revenues. This focus has caused the vast majority of telecommunications companies to acquire cable television businesses in...
Surfing the Net-which wave to ride?
January 1, 1997... Along with the development of the personal computer, the creation and evolution of the Internet is one of the greatest technological innovations of the past 20 years. It is a phenomenon that is constantly growing and changing. This article...
Too many managers ignore antitrust laws.
January 1, 1997... The potential impact of federal and state antitrust laws on the operations of a business is omnipresent. Too many managers, however, consider antitrust laws the concern only of the corporate counsel. This type of thinking may plunge businesses...
Nonprofit misconduct: board take heed. (nonprofit organizations)
January 1, 1997... Management guru, thinker, and author Peter Drucker observed that the "nonprofit institution has been America's resounding success in the last 40 years. In many ways, it is the 'growth industry' of America..."(1) The nonprofit sector is becoming a...
The Asian miracle in aviation will continue.
January 1, 1997... Paul Krugman, MIT economist, stirred up some controversy when he said that the "Asian economic miracle" was a myth and that, basically, all Asian growth is attributable to increased input (addition of capital and labor, not efficiency). Then, in...