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Annual McKinsey Survey

McKinsey has published their annual Global Survey of Business Executives, and you may review a summary of the results here (free registration required). The value they offer for the free registration is worth … well … next to nothing, frankly, but there’s just enough there that you should probably give it a look (if nothing else than to say “I see in the McKinsey survey that 98 percent of executives surveyed in India believe that outsourcing has a very positive or somewhat positive effect on the world economy … isn’t that a shocker” at your next business lunch.)

Tim Sanders

“Love is the Killer App.” I know … the title sounds touchy-feely. But the fact is that you’ll probably enjoy the book.

Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, makes this argument: In the New Economy individuals will be rewarded primarily by the extent to which they add value to their professional counterparts, and the best way to do so is through offering intangible rather than tangible value. What counts as intangible value? Knowledge, contacts, and compassion. Sanders’ is a three-part method:
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