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Breaking Free: Branson’s Early Years
“I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur,” says Richard Branson. At 56, despite his intentions, Branson has become one of the most successful and eccentric billionaires of the 20th century. He is the man behind one of the most recognizable brands in history and is sitting on an estimated fortune of $3.2 billion.

Business Opportunity: Are They Cost Effective
Companies are being forced to reduce their budget expenses just to stay solvent. Labor and employee benefits are the first to be cut because they are the largest expense affecting the Companies bottom line. The loss of a job affects the long term health and well being of every person in the market. Therefore, these are extreme times for those individuals.

Retail Store Operations
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Retail Security
Retailers are facing a greater number of ever more sophisticated threats in 2009 due to evolving technologies, increased reliance on computerized systems, and the down economy. They need to take serious steps to secure their businesses, including their data.

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Extreme Self Care
EXTREME is not a term usually connected to self-care. Self-care usually portrays a picture of gentleness, kindness, loving self or being nurturing. People don’t consider it necessary to take extreme action when it comes to self-care. Why?
The emerging marketing choice: fame or respect
Branding today is increasingly extreme, requiring companies to make extreme choices. One of those is the decision to think huge or small. For marketers, that means making a deliberate choice to pursue one of two outcomes: fame or respect. The former is epitomised by the scale-driven strategies of the major global brands; the latter is a more subtle affair, but one that is gaining traction with customers with every passing day.

Poverty Measurements and Relevance of Micro-credit
Some recent studies on poverty have attempted to put forth terms and classifications of the very poor in a way that will allow the reader to imagine the extreme helplessness, and a state of extreme destitute amongst the people under discussion.
Energy Efficient Windows and Insulation
“A well designed passive home with energy efficient windows requires no heating or cooling except in the most extreme climates. Even in extreme climates, it is possible to design a Zero Energy - Zero Bills house at little additional cost.” ‘Your Home´ Technical Guide, a publication to inform homeowners of the advantages of energy efficient design. Often people ask me “what is the best type of heater to have installed?” my answer is...
The Power of Good Measures
Most organizations have a TQM (Total Quality Management) Program. It is the quality of the measures in this effort that will determine the success or failure of it. Here is a short paper I wrote on some interesting aspects of measures.
Leadership Development is Key to Organizational Success
Financial measures are not effective measures you can put on a leadership course. What you can do is measure changes in behavior and attitude in the company over a period of time. The effectiveness of leadership training can be measured through a rolling employee survey. Ask employees how their managers are behaving.
GREEN BUSINESS, GREENBACKS and GREEN GRASS are FINANCIALLY SECURE
Pia Lord writes a new series for women(and men) to clarify financial security, areas to plan for, extreme budgeting, extreme restraint and savings. Now more than ever women are needing to save money and be critically aware of their own need for future financial security. Just to maintain a particular type of lifestyle requires a determined amount of money. It is vital to know what that is long before retirement or forced retirement comes around.
Handling PQQ’s in the Correct Manner
The business world is highly competitive and one area where this is very easily seen is the awarding of contracts on the basis of tenders. As a result, there are many measures in place to weed out companies that do not make the grade. One of these measures is called a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Companies and Government agencies that use the tendering process to award contracts use PQQs to find out whether the companies that are desirous of doing their work are actually capable of doing it.
Zero Tolerance Means Zero Leadership
We have all heard the horror stories regarding zero tolerance policies in the past. Stories about a teenager being expelled for having a Tylenol in her purse or a five year old removed from the classroom for bringing a toy gun to school are recent examples that have generated buzz in the press. Most of us laugh at the ridiculousness of such examples and consider them to be the exception rather than the rule for today's society. Why do such policies exist and what purpose do these extreme measures provide the organization? Do such extreme positions provide any benefit? How does such a policy reflect on the leadership within these organizations? And finally, what might be the cost for an organization that must act upon the violation of such a policy?

Strategic Measurements Guide Change and Improvement
"Crude measures of the right things are better than precise measures of the wrong things." Here are five core measurement areas that provide broad and balanced feedback loops for assessing and improving organization performance.
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