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Category Archives: Business/Economics

Growing inequality is not necessarily bad

I keep hearing all the time about how “bad” it is that the rich keep getting richer while the poor get poorer. I don’t think a lot of people really think about why they believe this is bad.
Here’s an overview of a NPR story that summarizes both sides of the argument:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7283485
As you can probably [...]

Posted 09 October 2007 † Peter § Faith ‡ Comments (0) °

If you have to tell people you’re cool, you’re probably not

The most well-known Peter Kim in the blogosphere (he also lives in the Boston area but works at Forrester Research) just wrote a post entitled “Chasing Cool”. I’ve thought about what he’s writing about in the past, as it relates to churches.
My problem with a lot of “emergent”/postmodern churches are that they try too [...]

Posted 02 May 2007 † Peter § Faith ‡ Comments (2) °

What is Marketing?

A lot of people don’t really understand what marketing is. I used to not understand it either. I remember when I was in college, I thought marketing was such a fluff subject (so I did something more “manly” instead: finance/economics). But I’ve come to understand that marketing is a core function of business and is [...]

Posted 30 April 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Discounts/premiums for company quality

As you progress through your career and work at a number of different companies, you realize that there are good companies and bad companies and everything in between. What’s the difference between a “good” company and a “bad” company? Quality of management, clarity of vision, opportunities for career development/advancement, work environment, treatment of employees, etc… [...]

Posted 25 April 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

How NOT to motivate people

I did a google search on “company morale” because I wanted to learn about various ways to evaluate and improve morale within an organization. Here’s one link that shows a clear case on how NOT to motivate people:
http://technocrat.net/d/2006/8/28/7262
It blows my mind how some leaders and managers think they can motivate people by being negative. One [...]

Posted 07 April 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °