Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Why America Needs an Economic Strategy - BusinessWeek
Why America Needs an Economic Strategy - BusinessWeek
my comment:
It is refreshing to read a non-political assessment of the situation. You should update your "Competitive Advantage among Nations" book, which I enjoyed when it first came out. I think the U.S. biggest "competitive advantage" is "opportunity". More hard working and highly-skilled immigrants will want to come to U.S. to advance their economic and social status, especially now that someone with little to no means made it to President. I disagree with your assessment of the negative effect of low skilled labor immigration since it increases "productivity" especially among jobs that non-immigrants do not want to do for mimimum wage and an aging population, but that's a whole different subject. Given the complexity of the issues you pose, at the very least, I hope the new administration should identify our strengths so that we don't do anything to convert them into weaknesses. In terms of education, we can actually use successful models to improve the system, especially at the elementary school level, which I believe is where we have made long strides backwards.
my comment:
It is refreshing to read a non-political assessment of the situation. You should update your "Competitive Advantage among Nations" book, which I enjoyed when it first came out. I think the U.S. biggest "competitive advantage" is "opportunity". More hard working and highly-skilled immigrants will want to come to U.S. to advance their economic and social status, especially now that someone with little to no means made it to President. I disagree with your assessment of the negative effect of low skilled labor immigration since it increases "productivity" especially among jobs that non-immigrants do not want to do for mimimum wage and an aging population, but that's a whole different subject. Given the complexity of the issues you pose, at the very least, I hope the new administration should identify our strengths so that we don't do anything to convert them into weaknesses. In terms of education, we can actually use successful models to improve the system, especially at the elementary school level, which I believe is where we have made long strides backwards.
How Better Marketing Elected Barack Obama - John Quelch
How Better Marketing Elected Barack Obama - John Quelch
my comments:
I agree with you. I sent an non-political e-mail to our sales force about a year ago using the Obama's internet campaign as "best practices" for selling to our clients. I get 2-3 e-mails per day which provided new information ("product news") and a reason to donate more money ("selling"). This extended to facebook and so on. It also allowed to import all your contacts to send them pre-written messages to support the campaign. Finally, all donors and volunteers received a thank you note prior to his Grant Park speech which ended "But I want to be clear about one thing .. All this happened because of you. Thank you, Barack" His campaign should a case study on how to manage an successful enterprise (leadership, strategy, management, marketing, sales, and Finance.
Carlos
my comments:
I agree with you. I sent an non-political e-mail to our sales force about a year ago using the Obama's internet campaign as "best practices" for selling to our clients. I get 2-3 e-mails per day which provided new information ("product news") and a reason to donate more money ("selling"). This extended to facebook and so on. It also allowed to import all your contacts to send them pre-written messages to support the campaign. Finally, all donors and volunteers received a thank you note prior to his Grant Park speech which ended "But I want to be clear about one thing .. All this happened because of you. Thank you, Barack" His campaign should a case study on how to manage an successful enterprise (leadership, strategy, management, marketing, sales, and Finance.
Carlos
Monday, November 10, 2008
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