Time: Your Best Utility Asset in a Recession

While we all might be wishing that we had a little better cash flow these days, we CAN do something about maximizing the asset that produces that cash: time. Take a look at the legendary Covey diagram and divide your activities up. Be honest.

All done? Now allocate your time in specific blocks to address the issues in the two top boxes. Your productivity will soar.

Want more help? Mike Myatt, chief strategy officer of N2growth, offers up some interesting ways to evaluate whether you or a subordinate should be handling a specific task. He argues pretty effectively that this simple skill is a chief differentiator for those desiring to be CEOs. For more, click: http://www.commercialpropertynews.com/cpn/content_display/business-management/management-strategies/e3i4818debd94b6160da61e0d665dd94c97

New York Times Takes a Hit

Call it a cost of being a top global newspaper. Attribute it to a high-profile reputation. Whatever the reason, the venerated New York Times was the subject of a elaborate hoax/spoof earlier, as a well-funded politically liberal group distributed more than a million copies of the spoof, touting social changes evident in an apparent nirvana.

How did the Times react? Go here: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/pranksters-spoof-the-times/?ref=arts

No Rust Here - Indiana is the new "business belt"

When Site Selection magazine speaks, economic developers perk up. In January 2009, ED professionals in Indiana will much to rejoice about. Earlier today I received the monthly rep notice from Conway Data, publishers of Site Selection, which proclaimed: "No Rust Here - Indiana is the new business belt."

Site Selection recently named Indiana as the fifth best state for business, and now this!

Want more about this epoch-changing review? Click here: http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=19488

Problem with Vista crashing? It'll be fixed by 2010

Saw this coverage from the recent Microsoft WinHEC conference, and was particuarly intrigued by Microsoft calling attention to the fact that frequent crashes in the Vista operating system will be fixed by the installation of Windows 7. As is apparent in the attached photo, they even included a projection of crash reduction.

Uh, it's my understanding that Windows 7 won't be out until at least 2010, and probably later, if previous ship dates are any indication.

If that's case, why tout Windows 7 now? Seems a little deliberately-induced brand bruising to an already black-and-blue Vista brand...

However, there is some cool stuff coming for the new operating system and you can check out the WinHEC conference highlights on ChannelWeb: http://www.crn.com/hardware/212001046;jsessionid=ESHZJLTX2RLZWQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN?pgno=1

New Tech High Schools transforming Indiana

The New Tech High School model, originally developed in California, has made its way to Indiana in a rather successful fashion. Reading about and seeing team-building, objective-focused learning makes me almost wish I could go back to those long-ago days, except this time in a completely different and energic environment.
For more information, go here: http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=19478