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One more thing to remember. Customers cannot walk into a store and touch and feel and use and compare the Google phone to others they would consider. That is a BIG disadvantage. Google missed. They figured types of customers would be wooed by the Google brand. However customers are saying they may indeed be More
Agreed for this reason: The prices being charged for stretching routine healthcare maintenance are insane. My insurance company was billed $910 for a routine annual GYN exam and Pap smear. (Not kidding, I have the paperwork to prove it.) The mammogram was an additional $520. Of course BC/BS didn' t pay that More
A good article with sound advice.
But one thing I just want to point out that bad bosses are the #1 reason of negative stress at the workplace. With the bad job market going on for several years most managers have become complacent and arrogant knowing that no matter how badly they treat their employee engagement More
The Kilimanjaro snow cover letter template has been melting not because of warming but because the forests that surround the mountain have been reduced by humans using them for fuel and building materials. The forests used to put considerable moisture into the air which then rose along the slopes of the mountain More
Frankly, a bigger issue is the small sample size. Thirty five parients provides, at best, general guidance but not statistical accuracy. The size of the sample to obtain a target confidence level level is a function of the size of the population. Given that there are millions of people with Altzheimer's disease More
stop quibbling over industry practices and look more closely at the limited data reported:
1. industry sales incentives are up, significantly for 1 month (.2 M annualized increase)
2. incentives to consumer at GM are up
3. strong sales to fleets
4. toyota's problems kept its growth at about 7%
conclusions: More
Companies are to cost cutting as crack addicts are to crystal meth--they can't help themselves and they have long since lost any recognition types of customers the long term detrimental effects.
Every week, they discuss ways to eliminate man-hours and reduce costs and in the same breath talk about where to find More
Given that China, along with many other countries, do not have a social safety net, and given the intense competition for even decent living wages in China (millions live on less than $1 per day), it is understandable that Chinese parents drive their kids extremely hard, especially in academics. They likely More
The Federal Reserve has never done anything that has benefited me my entire life. It only helps people who either need to borrow money because they cannot manage to save or to make life easier it easier to payoff loans because they have spent beyond their means. The Federal Reserve is either lowering interest More
Innovation causes income disparity as the innovators get filthy rich. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook for example, or the guys who founded Google. It is easy to explain why innovation process creates income disparity, it is natural and it is healthy. The alternative is to kill innovation, expect no More