Top 10 CRE posts from the last 30 days
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Nov 22 2011
Black Friday Good for Business Professionals
Black Friday, which in the U.S. pretty much begins Thanksgiving week and runs at least through Cyber Monday, is expected to generate outstanding deals on products of use for business professionals. Laptops, computers, cell phones, GPS devices, and other office supplies are among the items expected to be heavily discounted. Amazon is searching for the …
Nov 07 2011
Apple’s Supply-Chain Secret
Businessweek: Life as an Apple supplier is lucrative because of the high volumes but painful because of the strings attached. When Apple asks for a price quote for parts such as touchscreens, it demands a detailed accounting of how the manufacturer arrived at the quote, including its estimates for material and labor costs, and its …
Sep 06 2011
Talent and Vendors
Seth Godin: Most industry is built on vendor relationships, and vendors expect and sometimes value the impersonal nature of their relationships. This scales… until you lump in the talent. Should you treat vendors with respect? No doubt about it. Human beings do their best work when they’re treated fairly and with enthusiasm. But when the …
Jun 17 2011
Cubicle Becoming Relic in Modern Workplace
The high-walled cubicle is quickly becoming a relic in the modern workplace. It is also becoming more common for executives to move out of their offices and sit with the rest of the workers. And the actual size of our workspaces is shrinking, as employees increasingly split their time between working remotely and in the …
Jun 09 2011
Restaurant Lease Rule Changes to Impact Multi-site Retailers
From QSR: It’s always been difficult to own and operate a successful quick serve, and in the next few years, it might get tougher. That’s because some proposed rule changes in the way a company’s balance sheets are organized could create mayhem by showing that, on paper at least, a profitable quick-serve unit is losing …
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