《长尾战略》：三分财富的“隆中对”

中国人多,只要能避开同质化竞争对手,就是个适合长尾战略的典型国家“谁是三国里的刘备?当中原和江南这两块热门与次热门地区已被曹、孙     

靠双边途径解决全球失衡？

要想在一定程度上解决全球化在世界经济体系中造成的紧张关系，特别是发达国家与新兴市场国家之间的紧张关系，目前有两种方式。一是通过双边途径，采用优惠待遇与报复行动相结合（即“胡萝卜加大棒”）的方式，解决与贸易伙伴间的争端。二是在国际货币基金组织（IMF）等机构的框架中，通过多边途径部署严格的监督及执行体系，以确保达成普遍共识的规则得以维护。     

乌克兰水土保持战略问题

科学的水土保持战略可以保证制定正确的水土保持设施建设的顺序,提供水土保持措施的生态——经济效益的明确概念,计算水土保持投资回收期。本文仅限于对乌克兰森林草原带和北部草原带水土保持战略某些原则的讨论。这一地区的特点是垦殖率较高,土层的水土流失差异比较明显。该地区耕地占77％(在卢干州和第聂伯彼得洛夫斯克州高达农业用地的91.5％),在波尔塔瓦州耕地的水土流失率为13.8％,在卢干州达66.3％,甚至在大片0°—2°的坡耕地上也有水土流失现象。这首先是指北部草原带,耕地的水土流失率远不能反映土壤受到的现实的水土流失危险程度。例如,在顿涅茨州2°以下的坡耕地上至少有32％的耕地有水土流失,而其径流线的     

识别“陷阱条款”的27条妙计

“陷阱条款”是指试图把信用证从付款工具转变为非付款工具的信用证条款或措辞。这样的条款也称作软条款。而在信用证中加上一些软条款的不良风气始终无法消除，一旦把这类纠纷诉诸法庭，则受益的只有律师。因而了解这些陷阱的伎俩应该可以作为有效的预防措施之一。为了让读对如何识别和避免这类陷阱有一个更清晰的理解，这里提供一份我在过去28     

美国商业英雄:信任女人

(接上期)然,没有一位经理会坐视那些可能影响公司发展问题的混子,那些问题需要管理部门即时的监督指导;但大多数的情况并非生死攸关,身为经理,明辨这种差异是工作之一。零售业的不寻常之处,在于年轻人很快就可以得到很大的职权。例如佐姬管理好几个部门,每年营业额高达500万美元。只要再向上爬一级,也就是佐姬将担任的采购助理工作,就需要周游世界,为公司采购服装,替公司花钱,决定下一季时货架上应该陈列些什么商品。许多做这项工作的人都在25岁到30岁之间,而他们中有许多人,都在是古德曼的身旁熟悉了这一行,并且寻得自信。不是所有的人都有…     

Balancing corporate power: a new Federalist paper

In an effort to govern their increasingly complex organizations, chief executives in some of today's largest corporations are turning to one of the world's oldest political philosophies-federalism. Given that organizations are seen more and more as minisocieties, the prospect of applying political principles to management makes a great deal of sense. Federalism is particularly appropriate because it offers a well-recognized system for dealing with paradoxes of power and control: the need to make things big by keeping them small; to encourage autonomy but within bounds; and to combine variety and shared purpose, individuality and partnership, local and global. As London Business School professor Charles Handy explains it, federalism responds to these paradoxes by balancing power among those in the center of the organization, those in the centers of expertise, and those in the center of the action--the operating businesses. The centers of federal organizations meet regularly, but they do not need to live together. Doing so would concentrate too much power in one place, whereas federalism gets its strength and energy from spreading responsibility across many decision points. Guided by five principles, federalism avoids the risks of autocracy and the overcontrol of a central bureaucracy. It ensures a measure of democracy and creates a "dispersed center" that is more a network than a place. That's why Asea Brown Boveri CEO Percy Barnevik calls his sprawling "multi-domestic" enterprise of 1,100 separate companies and 210,000 employees a federation. It succeeds because the independent bits, be they individuals, clusters, or business units, know they are part of the greater whole.     

Will your Medicare claims stand up?

In the first two installments of our series, we gave you the details of reimbursement under the new Medicare fee schedule, and showed how to code evaluation-and-management services with the revised CPT system.* This issue, we'll tell what to expect from Medicare carriers as they teach and enforce the new payment rules.