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What to do in tough times: How to make the most out of your business

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”.
-Albert Einstein

For some who is still holding breath and waiting for things to “get back to normal,” it’s time to start taking in some air so you can get used to the fact that things may not ever be like they were. Things just might get even better, but for the time being, entrepreneurs need to shift and adjust. It’s not enough to just go with the flow.

If you’re stuck in a holding pattern until things even out you might end up losing more than you bargained for. Being open to new opportunities and endeavors is one of the prime characteristics of an entrepreneur.

Once you’ve accepted the fact that things are different you’ll be open to new ways for making money. What worked two years ago might not work in today’s economic climate. It may be time to rethink old strategies and make adjustments to your marketing and /or the packaging of goods and services.

Successful entrepreneurs are always on the lookout for new ways to create cash. Everyone has the ability to change the course of their future. It’s times like these that separate the doers from the whiners.

You’ve got to be in a cycle of continuous learning and earning. Stay abreast of what’s working for others. If you’ve modeled your Cash Machine after a similar company, perhaps it’s time to revisit their strategies. Be on the lookout for changing trends.

We have abundant opportunities! We all have the power to create success in any economy. What can you do today to create new money?

Be thinking about how you can make this economic change work for you instead of against you.

If you’re stuck in a rut, remember you’re not alone. It might be time to get reorganized. Join a networking group. Have a brainstorming session with your team or advisors. Keep things going in a forward motion, don’t become stagnate!

If it’s time to make a change in your Cash Machine strategies — do it. Don’t hesitate. Business is like the economy, it’s ever changing.

I know things can get tough at times but if you’re just waiting for things to even out you’ll be waiting a long time. You’ve got to think with your creative side and act on your best instincts. It’s understandable to get stuck once in a while but know that it’s up to you to snap out of it.

Do you want to have control of your future or are you listening to all the naysayers? Do you have a plan or are you just wishing? It’s time to get real, be honest, make changes where necessary and pull yourself up by the boot straps. You absolutely can do this!

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Project Manager II – Business Intelligence-Massachusetts

Project Manager II – Business Intelligence-Massachusetts
Job # 6073
Job Type: Full Time, regular direct position
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ to 7 years of experience.
Management Experience Required – No

Willingness to Travel – Occasionally Must have Business Intelligence, SAP, BW, BO and financial background. Manages global business intelligence projects. Provides the leadership for functional and/or technical analysis, development, and implementation of enterprise business intelligence capabilities. Provides timely portfolio status updates to the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO). Responsible for assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources, and developing plan and schedule to ensure timely completion of projects. Effectively coordinates the activities of internal and external resources in a matrix environment with cross Global Business Unit (GBU) partners. Follows standards in all projects as set forth by the Enterprise PMO. Provide daily operational and user support as needed . Communicates with Enterprise PMO and business executive management regarding project status. Works with senior business management and IS Leadership Team (ISLT) to establish priorities among identified projects. Participates in all corporate programs as directed by the Enterprise PMO and senior management in the Global Information Systems (GIS) organization. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Executes, in the form of projects, multi-year process enablement roadmaps aligning with S&N global strategy and technology standards. Works closely with business partners across multiple business units to define business requirements, determine functional approaches and align business intelligence projects with overall company strategic objectives. Implement process improvements and support organization change management efforts as necessary to sustain change and realize benefits related to assigned projects. Work with business partners and IT department representatives to drive resolution of cross-GBU, cross-GIS issues and manage risk for assigned projects. Leads global, distributed, cross-functional teams assigned to deliver benefits to the business. Complies with Enterprise PMO methodology to track, measure and phase gate review project metrics, schedule, budget and issues. Promote effective communications between the core teams, extended teams and the rest of the organization. Supports and adheres to all policies, procedures and standards, including GIS Guiding Principles, Project and Change Management processes, Internal and External Health & Safety, Quality, Regulatory and Finance compliance, and support of Internal and External Audits. Prepares and builds business cases for proposed projects. Leverages informal and formal contacts to overcome conflicts and blockages. Skilled at internal/external consulting and relationship management. Demonstrated ability in conflict resolution, issues and change management. Understanding of legal issues and dealing with their resolutions for the enterprise projects. Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally as well as written, to diverse groups at all organizational levels. For Funds, Costs or Profits: Accountable to business and ISLT sponsors for successful project execution within budget and schedule. Budget authority up to $5 million. For Supervision: Directs and manages global, multi-cultural, virtual teams in order to successfully execute projects. Projects affect multiple global locations. Project teams may exceed 30 FTE in a globally matrixed organization. For Internal and External Relationships: Works in a matrixed organizational role reporting, for project purposes, to both GIS and business executive management. Communicates and works with GBU business and GIS VP/Group Director/Directors and Managers on a daily basis concerning strategic, operational and tactical issues impacting project solution delivery, business processes, applications and systems. Supports executive level meetings as required. Coordinates and negotiates with external vendors when necessary to resolve systems issues or explore future capabilities. The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills and communication abilities. The job holder must win the confidence of individuals at all levels, both inside and outside of the group, to foster teamwork and vision for the growth of the organization and support the vision and goals of the GIS organization.========================================

Thank you
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Abbas Masnoon
PPCG, Inc.
Professional Placement Consulting Group, Inc.
A Nationwide Professional & Executive Search Firm
Tel: 508-234-6674
resume@ppcginc.com

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How much money you can make during the recession?

New money for new people.
When we have mote time we have more time to make a change. When things are nor so easy become necessary and change comes sooner. A lot’s of conversation about new on line economy, content based marketing and a culture of free exchange. Finally we have a reason to invest in ourselves. All worlds come together what we are faced with challenge.

Tony Robbins – Frank Kern And John Reese Interview – Money Masters Series

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True unemployment rate in US is already at 20%

Posted Jul 06 2009, 01:16 PM by Anthony Mirhaydari
Really, how hard is it to find a job? Was June’s horrid numbers, in which 467,000 people lost their jobs compared to 345,000 in May, a one-time fluke? Or does it mean that all those Wall Street economists who believe the economic recovery is starting are dead wrong?

Not to scare you, but the situation is actually worse than it seems. Over the years, the government has changed the way it counts the unemployed. An example of this is the criticized Birth-Death Model which was added in 2000. The model is designed to account for the birth and death of businesses and the resultant lag in survey data. Unfortunately, the model doesn’t work that well during economic contractions (like we have now) and consistently overstates the number of jobs being created each month.

John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics specializes in removing these questionable tweaks to the government’s statistical data to better align current numbers with the methodology used to gather historical data. After reviewing the data, Williams believes that “the June jobs loss likely exceeded 700,000.” David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff notes that the fall in the number of hours worked in June (to a record low of 33 per week) is equivalent to a loss of more than 800,000 jobs.

There are similar issues with the way the unemployment rate is measured. The headline rate only jumped from 9.4% to 9.5% because of a drop in the number of people in the workforce. The more inclusive “U-6″ measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers, jumped from 16.4% to 16.5%. But even this doesn’t adequately capture the situation on the ground: Back in the Clinton Administration, the definition of discouraged worker was changed to only include those that had given up looking for work because there were no jobs to be had within the last year.
By adding these folks back in, William’s SGS-Alternate Unemployment Measure rose to a jaw-dropping 20.6%. Separately, the Center for Labor Market Studies in Boston puts U.S. unemployment at 18.2%. Any way you cut the numbers, the situation is very bad. According to David Rosenberg, one-in-three among the unemployed have been looking for a job for more than six months and still can’t find one.
This brings us to another issue: expiring unemployment benefits. Continuing unemployment claims fell 53,000 to 6.7 million last week, but Deutsche Bank’s chief U.S. economist Joseph LaVorgna wonders how much of this decline is due people exhausting their standard 26-week benefit. He says: “We are concerned about what will happen when a significant share of out-of-work individuals’ benefits completely expire, because this could lead consumer spending to re-weaken, hence jeopardizing a fragile recovery.”

Unless the economy starts getting traction here in the third quarter, we could face a situation where people find that they have no job and no unemployment benefits. For these people, 2009 will feel an awful lot like 1932. As a result, spending cuts will be deep and dramatic.

My positions

The ongoing job losses will continue to weigh on the retail sector — which was one of the best performing groups coming out of the March low. I’ve added short positions in Target (TGT), Macy’s (M), and Office Depot (ODP) to my portfolio. Besides penny-pinching consumers, retailers face a federal minimum wage increase as well as a tough back-to-school and holiday shopping season.

Disclosure: The author does not own or control a position in any of the funds or companies mentioned.

Anthony Mirhaydari is a researcher for the Strategic Advantage investment newsletter. He can be contacted at anthony.mirhaydari@live.com. Feel free to comment below.

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US Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?

Buy – Steve Clemons

Each month, I receive from Leo Hindery an update on “America’s effective unemployment rate” which includes not only the official unemployment figures but other data points showing off-the-books unemployed or underemployed people.

The numbers are staggering and are aggregates of official data. They matter because various Obama administration officials including the President himself started off calling for huge stimulus packages to help generate “jobs, jobs, jobs!”

But now, I have been hearing more and more from senior Obama economic team members about the jobs they hoped for coming at the very tail end of an economic recovery. Others are talking about a GDP recovery — but not a jobs recovery. They are admitting as well that they underestimated the severity of this recession and its impact on unemployment levels.

And all this while Goldman Sachs and other financial houses have seen their balance sheets get cleaned up and bonuses surge.
Hindery writes:

Here is a June 2009 version of the summary that calculates the Effective Unemployment Rate, which is now 18.70%, and the Effective Number of Unemployed, which is now 30,172,000.

There are currently 14,729,000 officially unemployed workers, as just announced. However, this figure does not include the combined 15,443,000 workers either (1) in the “labor force reserve” because they have abandoned their job searches (i.e., 4,278,000) or (2) underemployed because they are “part-time of necessity” (i.e., 8,989,000) or “otherwise marginally attached” (i.e., 2,176,000).

The effective unemployment rate is therefore 18.70%, instead of the official 9.51%.

Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of workers who are officially unemployed has increased by 7,188,000, while almost twice as many workers – 13,290,000 – have become effectively unemployed. And all the while, we should have been creating around 2,250,000 new jobs (i.e., 18 months times 125,000 jobs per month) just to keep up with population growth.

In June, the number of workers officially unemployed increased 218,000, while the number of workers effectively unemployed actually decreased 35,000.

It’s important to see the entire picture of America’s jobs profile — no matter how unpleasant.

I recognize that credit bubble related recoveries are hard to work out and are usually quite slow — with job growth at the back end. This all makes sense — but with Christina Romer out raising expectations again with giddy talk predicting a V-shaped recovery and given the “jobs, jobs, jobs” mantra of President Obama himself — the gap between the job figures expected and the disappointing economic realities generated may be politically consequential.

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The dream

“Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart…
who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside awakens.”
~ Carl Jung

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Job Internal Auditor– MA

Internal Auditor– MA
Job # 6061
Job Type: Full Time, regular position Local candidates

Requirements:Degree in Accounting or Finance with Public Accounting experience or audit experience at a large company

2 to 4 years of experience auditing large companies in either Public Accounting or industry. Strong technical knowledge of US generally accepted accounting principles. A CPA or CIA is preferred. Excellent communication skills (written and oral) with a strong attention to detail. Ability to work effectively with a broad diversity of people.
Self-motivated individual with ability to operate independently.
Demonstrated success working across different functions & levels of management. This position also requires the ability to travel.

These audits will include detailed assessment of operational, financial and systems activities where a thorough understanding of control processes must be obtained from a variety of people and resources. You’ll provide recommendations that will include strengthening internal controls, mitigating financial risks and safeguarding the corporation.

Abbas Masnoon
PPCG, Inc.
Professional Placement Consulting Group, Inc.
A Nationwide Professional & Executive Search Fir
Tel: 508-234-6674
resume@ppcginc.com

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American Pirates – Healthcare in America

American Pirates – Healthcare in America

MSNBC news: CIGNA Shame on you

In a country of democracy – who is in charge?

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The Mondragón Cooperatives as a Model of Collaborative Business for the 21st Century

The Mondragón Cooperatives as a Model of Collaborative Business for the 21st Century from Luminific.com on Vimeo.

Join us for a special evening with Praxis Peace Institute Founding Director, Georgia Kelly, as she discusses the unique collaborative business model of the Mondragon Cooperatives located in the Basque country of Spain. Founded in 1955, Mondragon now encompasses 264 businesses and employs more than 100,000 worker-owners. It is a highly successful cooperative model with over 50 years of proven success. They have established research centers, bank and credit unions, a university, youth cooperatives, and small to large businesses. This presentation will cover the ethics and vision of Mondragón as well as unique success stories that are an inspiration to those seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. The goal of the Mondragón Cooperatives is to create community through economic relationships and to transform society through conscious economic practices.

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“We not always tell the truth” – Jim Cramer

Jim and Jon on Mad Money. You do not even have to hide in America. Everyone knows what the truth is but does nothing about it.

What do you think creates this level of openness and this level of inaction in US?

Why do you think social freedom does not translate in to personal freedom?

Do you wonder why Jon Stewart understands US financial market game better than FCC?

Would you ask this question your senator?

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