Archive for 'Personal Observations' Category
Runaway Prius hits 90 mph before stopping with aid of CHP
9 March 2010This has all the makings of a disaster and from the looks of it Toyota Corp has the deer in the headlights look. This has all the makings of a PR disaster minus the PR.
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A Happy New Year
31 December 2009Here’s wishing you and yours a Happy New Year ahead. It promises to be an interesting year indeed.
Cheers!!!
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Will GM go bankrupt again?
5 August 2009There are a select group of chosen companies that seem to go bankrupt again and again - they seem to have a bankruptcy addiction. They just can’t seem to help themselves - someone would think Airlines in this context. I am beginning to think that GM is going to join that select list if such […]
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The most important thing that you should be doing now…
21 July 2009No, make that yesterday. By “you”, I mean any of us who are in the business of working to sell things - selling something either here or there. It’s an amazing circular world we live in where I’m working hard to sell you something which you either need or don’t need but which you can […]
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Cow manure is Green and Walmart has me “Cowabunga”!!
16 July 2009Just who is buying this bullshit is another story. I am not one to use profanity lightly but the profane doesn’t do this latest piece of ludicrousness any justice. What drove me batty is this news item from Walmart: Wal-Mart exec foresees eco-ratings for all.
Among the many firms of this world, Walmart is perhaps one […]
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Swine flu and Preparedness
28 April 2009As you very well know, Swine flu is in the news and its effect on the supply chains of the world is a foregone conclusion regardless of whether it peters out and dies or it becomes a full blown pandemic. As I’ve said numerous times on this blog, extended multi-country supply chains increase the number […]
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The IBM Brand Promise
13 March 2009As you might know, I am an IBMer now by way of acquisition of my erstwhile firm ILOG. In addition to reading The Supply-Based Advantage: How to Link Suppliers to Your Organization’s Corporate Strategy which was discussed in the last guest post - Supply Based Management in Tough Times, I am also reading All Customers […]
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