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Business Forum articles from January 1998
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Business Forum archives from January 1998
Admiral Rickover: Lessons for Business Leaders.
January 1, 1998... One of America's most enduring leaders was Hyman Rickover. For more than 30 years, Rickover headed Naval Reactors, an organization that was responsible not only for building the nuclear navy, but also for spawning and nurturing the commercial...
Business Is Not War, But Leadership Is Leadership.
January 1, 1998... Years ago, Peter Drucker wrote that the first systematic book about leadership, written by Xenophon 2,000 years earlier, was still the best. [1] I thought that Xenophon was probably a Greek philosopher. When I got around to reading Xenophon, I...
Quality Service Makes Happy Customers and Greater Profits.
January 1, 1998... "Pul-eeze! Will Someone Help Me?" screamed a headline in Time magazine in the late 1980s. The cover story focused on the deterioration of customer service and blamed it on general economic upheavals such as high inflation, labor shortage, and...
Cost of Information Limits Strategic Management.
January 1, 1998... The economics of information must be taken into account to understand successful strategic management.
Think of each decision to allocate resources, within a firm or among firms, as a "transaction." To ensure the rationality of each...
Planning the Enforcement of International Commercial Contracts in Mexico.
January 1, 1998... Mexico has moved from isolationism to playing an active role in global markets--especially with the advent of NAFTA. As a result, managers of foreign companies who enter into commercial contracts with a Mexican counterpart will increasingly be...
New Competitive Opportunities May Emerge in the Deregulation of the Electrical Power Industry.
January 1, 1998... The electric power industry is undergoing epic changes that will rewrite its entire competitive structure. Enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) by Congress has led to a wave of electric power deregulation that is spreading from...
Coping with Tax Deposit Liability.
January 1, 1998... Employees who undertake management responsibility roles, particularly those in smaller companies to whom greater financial responsibility is typically delegated, should always bear in mind that the collection arm of the Internal Revenue Service...
China: Freer Trade Opens the Door to Change.
January 1, 1998... "Congress Approves Permanent Normal Trade Status For China"
At the time of this writing, this headline is only half true. The House of Representatives voted 237-197 to approve the status. The proposal next goes to the Senate where it has...