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May 2013
April 2013
- 15: It’s All About Education (1)
- 11: Managing a Business in Today’s world (0)
- 09: The Moral Foundations of Society (0)
- 07: IF GERMANY LEAVES THE EURO ZONE (0)
- 01: Mind the gap (North and South Europe) (0)
March 2013
- 31: Markets of the Poor: Limits and Opportunities (0)
- 30: Ganging Up on Poverty (0)
- 26: Europe’s Disturbing Precedent in the Cyprus Bailout (0)
- 24: 10 to Midnight in the Garden of Credit: Socrates Wonders About Cardinal Rules, Historical Precedents, Matter-Antimatter, and the Fantasy Era of Fiat Money Creation (1)
- 22: Mindfulness, Meditation, Wellness and Their Connection to Corporate America’s Bottom Line (2)
- 19: Asynchronous Cycles and European Convergence. (0)
- 18: “MANAGING THE GROWING FIRM” : LINKAGES FOR DIVISION OF WORK (0)
- 05: Europe, Unemployment and Instability (0)
February 2013
- 25: THE EDUCATION BUSINESS IN THE USA:Is it Really Educating for the Needs of the Business World? (2)
- 23: The Tyranny of Political Economy (0)
- 19: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: Does it work? Does it matter? (0)
- 17: Welcome (0)
- 07: A Brief History of International Borrowing (2)
January 2013
- 22: “MANAGING THE GROWING FIRM” : LINKAGES FOR MARKET STRATEGY (0)
- 21: “MANAGING THE GROWING FIRM” : LINKAGES FOR FINANCIAL VIABILITY (0)
- 06: The next productivity revolution: The ‘industrial internet’ (0)
- 04: Humility and Apology: The Lexis of an Authentic Leader (0)
December 2012
- 11: The End of Socialism but Not The End of Social Welfare (0)
- 03: MAINTAINING HUMAN RELATIONS WITH BUSINESS GROWTH: Importance of the Human Rerations Issue (0)
November 2012
- 26: BUSINESS AND SOCIETY (0)
- 04: MAINTAINING HUMAN RELATIONS WITH BUSINESS GROWTH: Assessing your Human Rerations Strategy (0)
October 2012
- 27: THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN: A lesson from ancient Athens? (2)
- 21: MAINTAINING HUMAN RELATIONS WITH BUSINESS GROWTH: What is Human Relations? (0)
September 2012
- 22: PREPARING AN ACQUISITION ACTION PLAN (0)
- 22: The Impact of Sarbanes–Oxley on Small Businesses (2)
- 21: What’s the use of economics? (1)
- 17: Character, Policy and the Selection of Leaders (0)
- 16: Germany and the Economics of “Merkelianism” (1)
- 11: President Obama and the November Presidential Election (0)
- 08: JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! (0)
- 08: BEYOND POLITICS: Thoughts on the presidential election (1)
August 2012
- 30: Iphigenia, Jonah and the sacrifice of Greece (0)
- 09: Mars, Mario (European Central Bank President Mario Draghi ) and our place in the world (0)
- 03: The challenges ahead for (Greek Prime Minister) Samaras (0)
- 03: The Election, the Presidency and Foreign Policy (0)
July 2012
- 19: (The Greek Crisis) ATHENS: Politics, Finance and Philosophy (2)
- 17: CLOSING THE DEAL–M&A Series of Articles (0)
- 09: FINANCIAL VIABILITY: Your Yardstick for Organization Achievement, Part 3 (last) (1)
- 05: FINANCIAL VIABILITY: Your Yardstick for Organization Achievement, Part 2 (1)
- 04: The (other) deleveraging: What economists need to know about the modern money creation process (0)
- 04: Regaining Confidence in Eurozone’s Financial System is the Key for Growth (0)
- 02: FINANCIAL VIABILITY: Your Yardstick for Organization Achievement, Part 1 (1)
June 2012
- 28: Negotiating Your Way to a Great Deal (0)
- 21: Five Characteristics of Sustainable Companies (0)
- 17: Greek Elections-Who do we want? (0)
- 16: Banking union in the Eurozone and the EU (0)
- 13: Why Some “Ordinary” Businesses Sell For Massive Premiums (0)
- 09: PRIVATE EQUITY: A Contributing Factor to the Crisis or a Way to Resolve It? (0)
May 2012
- 29: SOME THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ON “AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM” Are Americans Really Different? (2)
- 20: A Vicious Cycle of Debt and Recession (0)
- 19: Help Your Employees Be Strategic Thinkers (0)
- 17: Integrated Marketing: If You Knew It, You’d Do It (0)
- 11: (The recent) elections: Democracy and the fiscal compact (0)
- 11: (Greece) Apocalypse now (0)
- 09: Revolutionary Change and the Greek Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Venture Capital World (1)
- 09: Leadership and Employee Engagement (0)
- 08: Greek Elections: Time to speak frankly (0)
- 05: AN AMERICAN SYNERGISTIC TRILOGY: The Space Program, The Free-Market Economy And Philanthropy (1)
- 04: Is our Economy Floating at best? (0)
April 2012
- 15: An Editorial: How we will Create jobs is the Question (0)
- 15: Acquisitions: NEGOTIATING THE DEAL (0)
- 06: NO CHARACTER, NO CULTURE (0)
March 2012
- 30: SOME THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY (2)
- 15: The State of the World: Germany’s Strategy (1)
- 10: ON PHILANTHROPISTS AND THEIR ACTS OF PHILANTHROPY (2)
February 2012
- 24: Acquisitions–Industry Statistics (0)
- 20: Do Not Humiliate the Greeks (1)
- 12: LETTER of INTENT and FORMAL DUE DILIGENCE for ACQUISITIONS (0)
- 07: Greek Crisis, Debt and Competitiveness: A Case Study of Irrational Expectations (0)
- 01: The First Steps After You Buy a Business (0)
- 01: Release the potential of Greek workers (0)
January 2012
- 13: Nightmare scenario of a return to the drachma (0)
- 13: Which Europe? (0)
- 13: Are Treasuries Overpriced? (0)
- 11: VALUING AND PRICING THE COMPANY (This is the 10th article in the series on M&A) (0)
- 07: A Free Lunch in a Perfect Storm (0)
December 2011
- 28: Corporate Insiders are Turning Neutral on the U.S. Stock Market (0)
- 26: Building a Fortune 500 Manufacturing Corporation from Scratch (Synergy and Homogeneity for Growth in Manufacturing) (0)
- 12: Globalisation and higher education: Different degrees of success. (Offshoring, inequality, and the value of college degrees) (0)
- 11: AMERICAN DIPLOMACY: Some thoughts (0)
- 07: ECB: The Quest for Purity May Lead to Obscurity (5)
- 05: Buying an Internet or Online Business (4)
November 2011
- 29: PRELIMINARY DUE DILIGENCE (This is the 9th article in the series on M&A) (0)
- 24: Signaling Equity Performance Shifts by Size and Style (0)
- 20: The Best Gift You Can Ever Buy For Yourself: A Business of Your Own! (4)
- 20: The fear factor (0)
- 03: A MODERN GREEK TRAGEDY:The Barber and the Referendum (1)
October 2011
- 31: How has President Obama done so far? (1)
- 31: Fortress Europe (0)
- 31: Greece is looking for a new model (0)
- 03: Return to the drachma would take Greece back decades, says banker (0)
- 03: A New Welfare State? (0)
September 2011
- 25: Acquisitions-small companies: Industry Statistics (1)
- 25: The great silence (0)
- 21: The moment of truth (0)
- 21: Michigan’s Economy (0)
- 15: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: The Effective Manager (0)
- 14: The plague of hyperbole (0)
- 14: BUSH AND OBAMA: A Difference? A Meaning? (0)
- 14: Wanted: Mature politicians (0)
- 06: President Obama: The Beautiful and the Sublime (5)
- 05: Forget The Asking Price of A Business For Sale!! (0)
- 05: Between rock and hard place (0)
August 2011
- 24: The Road (2)
- 16: Financing The Deal (4)
- 16: GIULIO TREMONTI: In the “Eye” of the Market and of Berlusconi. (a commentary on the Italian financial situation). (5)
- 11: August Jobs Report is Discouraging (6)
- 11: The Enemy Within (1)
- 10: Greece and the U.S.: The Importance of Monetary Policy Independence (4)
- 10: Growth Strategy / Business Models-a brief comment (1)
- 05: THE GREEK ECONOMY AND THE GREEK UNIVERSITIES (1)
July 2011
- 29: The U.S. Budget Problem (2)
- 19: Debt-Ceiling: Is It Armageddon, Really? (5)
- 18: HOW TO VALUE A SMALL BUSINESS (1)
- 07: The right people for the job (3)
- 02: THE EVALUATION PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW: (8th article in the series on M&A) (2)
June 2011
- 30: Greece Missed Chance for a Better Memorandum: (Kathimerini, June 29, 2011) (0)
- 28: THE EURO: A GOLDEN TRAP FOR GREECE (0)
- 28: WHY BUY AN EXISTING BUSINESS (0)
- 23: AN OPERATING CORPORATE GROWTH STRATEGY: Building a Fortune 500 Manufacturing Business (7th article in the series on M&A) (0)
- 20: DYNAMIC BUSINESS GROWTH: a brief review (0)
- 20: CASTING THE NET FOR BUSINESS LEADS: 6th article in the series on M&A (0)
- 15: (Greek PM) Papandreou’s options (0)
May 2011
- 29: “The Challenge of Rapid Change”: some thoughts for young aspiring executives / entrepreneurs (0)
- 25: Insider Trading in the Post-Rajaratnam World (0)
- 22: Dynamic Management of Growing Firms–Part 4 (0)
- 11: Meanwhile, what are we doing? (in Greece & Europe) (0)
- 09: Lost opportunities (Greece) (0)
- 04: Dynamic Management of Growing Firms–Part 3 (0)
- 04: Trichet and the others (0)
- 02: Anatomy of an Insider Trading Trial (1)
April 2011
- 16: Dynamic Management of Growing Firms–Part 2 (6)
- 07: Political reboot–Greece (2)
- 06: Dynamic Management of Growing Firms-Part 1 (0)
March 2011
- 31: BUILDING THE ACQUISITION TEAM: 5th article in the series on M&A (0)
- 29: Government in a national crisis–Greece (0)
February 2011
- 25: BUILDING CREDIBILITY FOR BUSINESS OWNERSHIP: 4th article in the series of M&A (0)
- 16: Practical Innovation (0)
- 13: The Proposed E.U. “Competitiveness Pact” (0)
- 11: CRITERIA AND THE ACQUISITION PLAN: 3rd article in the series on M&A (0)
- 04: Improvement in Quality of Life with Information Technology (0)
January 2011
- 04: WHO BUYS COMPANIES AND WHY (2)
December 2010
- 17: Exceptional Leaders Invent the Future-some observations (0)
- 02: THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURING (4th article in a series on US Manufacturing articles) (0)
November 2010
- 26: The Next Bubble: Your Toil-Your Trouble (2)
- 19: Reciprocity and Justice: What Aristotle tells us about it! (0)
- 19: We are facing critical times in the USA Manufacturing: a perspective (2)
- 10: Prime Minister Papandreou’s balancing act (in Wednesday’s, November 10, 2010 Kathimerini) (0)
- 06: HOW TO ACQUIRE THE RIGHT BUSINESS-An Introduction (0)
October 2010
- 18: THE FAILURE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN GREECE (1)
- 08: A Few Notes on M&A (0)
September 2010
- 15: Money for nothing–(Greece) (0)
- 13: SHORT-TERMS GOALS / LONG-TERM DREAMS (Be Prepared to Reach Goals Other Than Those You Set) (0)
August 2010
- 26: SELLING IDEAS IN THE MARKET: REVOLUTIONARY AND EVOLUTIONARY INNOVATION IN CORPORATIONS (0)
- 18: Justice unfairly slow (0)
- 12: Business Strategy, Decisive Management and Success (4)
July 2010
- 25: What Do General Partners in Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds Bring to the Table: Intellectual Capital and Value Generation (0)
- 25: Improving Trust for Leaders (0)
- 13: How do You Manage a Company to Grow? (0)
- 09: The Making of The Greek Fiscal Crisis (0)
- 06: Systematic Innovation . . . an oxymoron? (0)
- 05: Desperate investors (0)
June 2010
- 21: SUCCESSFULLY MANAGING THE SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (1)
- 09: The Challenge of Rapid Change in a Borderless World (0)
May 2010
- 29: The Successful Business Acquisition Process –The Final two summaries: -step-#15-Closing the Deal and step-#16-After the Deal is closed (0)
- 27: The Chief Executive Officer (0)
- 24: Understanding Derivatives: Beyond Good and Evil (0)
- 21: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step-#13-Financing the acquisition and step-#14-Your action plan (0)
- 20: “Better Makes Us Best”–The power of a simple idea (2)
- 17: Lean Manufacturing in Crisis? (1)
- 15: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step-#12-Negotiating the deal (0)
- 14: Remedy for Future Market Meltdowns: Require Margins for Over-the-Counter Trades (1)
- 12: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Steps #10– Letter of intent and formal due diligence & #11-Valuing and pricing the company (1)
- 09: Goldman Versus the SEC (0)
- 04: Sustainability of Organizations (2)
- 04: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #9 – Preliminary due Diligence (0)
- 04: C. K. Prahalad – Guru on Strategy, Leadership and Competitiveness (2)
- 04: How to Develop a High Performing Workforce as the Economy Recovers from Recession (3)
April 2010
- 30: Employment Growth (2)
- 17: Investing in Michigan Companies (0)
- 11: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #8 – The Evaluation Process: an Overview (0)
- 05: How to Grow Your Company as the Economy Recovers from the Recession (2)
- 04: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #7 – Narrowing Your Search: Matching Broad Criteria of Your Initial Acquisition Plan (0)
- 01: An Opinion on the Uncertainty of Today’s Business Environment (3)
March 2010
- 14: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #6 – Casting the net for business leads (0)
- 07: The Auto Industry is now a Commodity Business (0)
- 07: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #5 – Building the Acquisition Team (0)
February 2010
- 28: How has President Obama done so far? (1)
- 28: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #4 – Building Credibility for Business Ownership (2)
- 20: One Man’s Opinion looking ahead for 2010 (2)
- 15: Growth Management: The Critical Success Factors (0)
- 01: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #2 – Acquisition Criteria and Your Initial Acquisition Plan (2)
- 01: Why did GM Buy Saab in the First Place? (3)
January 2010
- 24: The Successful Business Acquisition Process – Step #1 Who Buys Companies and Why? (1)
- 17: The Business Enterprise and Today’s Society (2)
December 2009
November 2009
- 22: The Cultures of Technology Intensive Manufacturing (0)
- 15: Welcome to the Business Thinker (0)
- 15: Dynamic Business Growth (0)
- 15: Technology and Education (0)
- 07: Think Strategically but Flexibly and Decisively for Success (0)