Greed and Strange Bedfellows

What do the government of Singapore, California’s State Workers Pension Fund, and the Church of England all have in common?  They are all major investment losers in a massive commercial real estate fiasco. Five years ago Tishman Speyer and Blackrock Realty partnered to purchase the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village housing complexes in Manhattan.  [...]

The Biggest Bankruptcy in Modern History – Now What?

Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy September 2008. This was a major part of the economic meltdown during this time period. A court-appointed examiner, Anton Valukas, has found that they used accounting gimmicks to hide the fact that they were billions of dollars in debt and totally insolvent weeks before they even filed for Bankruptcy. If [...]

Why Most Marketing Fails

Why Most Marketing Fails (And What You Can Do To Avoid It) By Gene Pinder Whether it’s $500 or $5 million that’s being spent on marketing by companies and organizations, the chances are good the results are the same — failure. More money is being thrown at marketing and advertising than ever before, and yet [...]

Marketing Lessons From The Obama Campaign

Five Marketing Lessons From the Obama Campaign By Gene Pinder Marketers in for-profit ventures and non-profit organizations can learn a lot about marketing from the way the Obama campaign has been run. Here are key five lessons: Consistent Branding and Positioning One of the strengths of the Obama campaign has been to effectively channel the [...]

Business Quotes to Help You Stay Focused

There is a great post over at Business Information You Can Use with a lot of business quotes.  Here are a few: “Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That’s because leadership has two sides – what a person is (character) and what a person does (competence).” – Stephen Covey “I believe [...]

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