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Download this podcast Length 21:17 Download audio file (20091118_a_bill_powell_pt2.mp3) We are in the middle of a discussion with Bill Powell, senior writer for Time and Fortune magazines.  In the first part, we talked about China and the rest of the world, how we try to make comparisons to what is happening in China with what we have seen in the past.  In this Podcast, I wanted to start off by getting Bill’s take on the challenges of covering China.  I prefaced my question by saying that, in our consulting practice at Technomic Asia, we are very careful not to talk about “THE” China market … there are, in fact, MANY China “markets” taking into account big cities, small cities, northern cultures, southern cultures, urban and rural, etc.  I asked him to talk about the practicalities over covering such a vast subject and the challenges he finds in trying to do so …

Download this podcast Length 17:29 Download audio file (20091115_bill_powell_pt1.mp3) Over the past 4 years of the China Business Podcast we’ve done many interviews with business people in China, typically leaders of companies or operations.  We’ve talked about the intricacies of doing business here, the opportunities and challenges, and specific strategies and tactics that have worked for them. Well, I would like to take a chance to back up a bit and view the China environment from a different perspective through an interview with someone who has been reporting on the action, not only in China but around the world.  Bill Powell is the senior writer for Time and Fortune magazines and is based in Shanghai.  We’ve known each other for a couple of years and he calls every now and then to bounce around some ideas and perspectives.  I have always appreciated his perspective and I thought he would make a great interview … and I was right. Here is part one of that interview …

With Game 6 of the World Series upon us, we found a fascinating article from Time entitled Sport: A Game of Inches. It s from July 1957. ___ ___ It s about George Robert Tebbetts who gave 53 years of his life to Major League Baseball first as a player, then a scout and, finally, the manager of the Cincinnati Redlegs (as the Reds were known at that time). He is better known by his nickname: Birdie. How did he get his nickname? No, it doesn t have anything to do with the use of his middle finger! The article says that his aunt observed that he had lips like a bird. Wikipedia says his aunt said he chirped like a bird. We don t know which source to believe, but they do both agree that his voice was irritating. According to the article, he got thrown out of a game because, as the umpire said, I have a splitting headache and that voice of yours just kills me. Time awarded him the Manager of the Year honor in 1956 because of the way he had turned around his team. There are all kinds of lessons in this article about baseball, of course, but also about leadership, life and entrepreneuring. There are also a number of great quotes by Birdie in this article. Quotes that make you think and quotes that make you realize how colorful he was. Like his scouting report on a young pitcher, where Birdie said, Major league stuff and a great arm. Screwy in the head. Eliminate head and I recommend. Get good surgeon. But our favorite quote is where the title of the article comes from: Baseball is a game of inches a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short he s a hero. Two inches the other way and he s a bum because he hit into a double play. True in baseball. True in life. True in small business and entrepreneuring. So here are 5 lessons from baseball about being a hero in business: Prepare to be a hero You select your bat. You practice and practice and practice some more. You have to know your competition almost as well as you know yourself. Step up to the plate You ll never be a hero if you don t put on your uniform. You ll never be a hero if you don t get out of the dugout. You have to step up to the plate. You have to risk striking out. A lot of people never take their turn at bat. They have ideas but they never act upon them. They spend so much time preparing that they never get in the game. Pick your pitch You won t be a hero if you swing at every pitch. You ll strike out before the right one comes along. Opportunities are all around you. Most of them aren t worth your time. There are prospects you could pursue. Pick the right ones for you, your products or services and your company. There are projects you could initiate. Select the ones that will advance you the furthest toward your goals. Let the rest pass right by. Don t worry about the result When you re up to bat, you don t know where the ball will go when you hit it. You can t worry about that. You just have to focus on hitting it hard. You can t make a prospect say yes. You can give your prospect your best pitch. You can t force an employer to hire you. You can give them every reason to put you on their roster. Heroes know you can t control results. You can only control your activity. So they focus on the activity and let the results take care of themselves. You may not be a hero today but you can rest assured you will be a hero soon. Inch your way forward. Focus on getting a little faster, a little better, a little smarter every time you re at bat. Take away the lessons from failure and success to hit a grand slam the next time out! That s bigg success! ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success. Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thanks so much for reading our post today. Please join us next time when we discuss why you should beware of killing your customers with kindness. Until then, here s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00516-110509.mp3 Related posts Steer Your Way to Bigg Success A Lesson on Crowds from Glee (Image in today s post from Time.com)

Have you evolved enough to navigate today s world? We d never thought about it before. Then we saw a great article from Time magazine that says we re moving through the modern world with a pre-historic brain. According to the research, it s a problem because it affects the way we analyze risk. We haven t evolved enough to properly assess the risks we face today. ___ ___ How we assess risk We analyze risk in two ways: instantly based on our feelings and logically. Most of the time, we use the first way our feelings to assess risk. It s because of the way our brain works. Bells and whistles are quick to go off when we sense risk. However, turning them off is much more difficult because it s not natural. So we re good at assessing short-term risk; we re not so good at the long-term risks we re more likely to face in our modern world. Managing risk Our definition of bigg success is life on your own terms. It s implicit in our definition that you own your life. You are the entrepreneur in charge. There s a myth that entrepreneurs are risk lovers. While that label certainly applies to a portion of entrepreneurs, you can t say that about the overwhelming majority of us. Entrepreneurs are, however, excellent managers of risk. They understand that they can t predict the future. So they don t try. They create their own future. There are many ways to manage risk. One is to diversify, diversify, diversify. That s the trick you don t want to be a one-trick pony. Here are four places to diversify your life: Diversify your portfolio We ve learned this lesson the hard way. Investing is risky, but you can minimize that risk by spreading your investments out. Diversify your income Multiple streams of income provide safety. This is more important than ever in today s business world. If you re an entrepreneur, that means not relying on a single product or service to carry you through. If you re an employee, it means having a way to make some money on the side. It could be a rental property or a home-based business you can work in your spare time. Diversify your activities You gain new insights when you vary what you do. You learn new things by doing new things. You re able to assess risk better when you bring a well-rounded mind to the problem. Diversify your relationships Get to know people who don t think like you. Listen to their points-of-view. Try to bring some of their thinking into your analysis of risk. Don t be a one-trick pony. Diversify, diversify, diversify. It s one of the keys to reaching bigg success. How do you manage risk? Share that with us by leaving a comment, e-mailing us at bigginfo@biggsuccess.com or leaving a voice message at 888.455.BIGG (2444). ___ Would you like more tips and tools to live your life on your own terms? Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00493-100109.mp3 Related posts 3 Reasons Entrepreneurs Fail The First Question Entrepreneurs Must Ask Think Like an Entrepreneur (Image in today s post from pipm)

Corporate Social Responsible News:Lexus Chooses Visible Light Solar Technologies; Time Magazine's Social Values Poll; U of Tenn's Frat Charity Event

Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show, Podcasts, Acura, Audi, Ford, Honda, Lexus, Rolls-Royce Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now! Episode #144 of the Autoblog Podcast is here. Chris, Sam, and Dan took some time on Labor Day to ruminate over some automotive subjects, and it wound up being another near-epic length 'cast. The Frankfurt Motor Show is coming, and on that note, we start off with the Lexus LF-Ch, expected to debut there soon. More Frankfurt anticipation is built as we talk about the Ford CMax, and then we move on to the Rolls Royce Ghost, the debacle surrounding the Honda Crosstour and social media, Time Magazine's unexciting list of exciting cars, and wrap it all up with the disparaging remarks Audi's chief directed at the Chevrolet Volt. We hit the questions before calling it a night well past the hour and a half mark. Thanks for taking the time to listen, welcome to all the new listeners who've discovered us through everyone's reviewing efforts in iTunes, thanks for the help on the survey, and as always, hit us up at Podcast at Autoblog Dot Com. See you next week, but in the meantime, check out this, or this! Continue reading Autoblog Podcast #144Autoblog Podcast #144 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Corporate Social Responsible News: Time magazine on Bon Appetit; Merrick Ad Age + Deloitte-GMA Studies re. Triple Bottom Line Consumers

Corporate Social Responsible News: Time magazine on Bon Appetit; Merrick Ad Age + Deloitte-GMA Studies re. Triple Bottom Line Consumers

Corporate Social Responsible News: Time magazine on Bon Appetit; Merrick Ad Age + Deloitte-GMA Studies re. Triple Bottom Line Consumers

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New Media Vs. Old Media presentation with Time's Journalist Barry Hillenbrand held on May 5th at 18 o clock at American Corner in city library "Braka Miladinovci"

The VeinViewer. Hailed by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2004, the VeinViewer was initially developed to aid blood sampling and phlebotomies. After using/ researching with the VeinViewer for more than 2 years, Clinica Miyake team decided to post this video to share what technology can help on phlebology diagnosis and treatment.Veinviewer veinviewer veinviewer veinviewer Clinica Miyake Team: Kasuo Miyake, MD, PhD (Medical Director -CRM 68.778) Flavio Duarte, MD; Rodrigo Kikuchi, MD; John Davidson, MD; Hiroshi Miyake, MD, PhD. Filmed by: CM Team and Wilson Langeani. Edited by: Wilson Langeani.

Digital Punch - Episode_09 - Show Summary:In this 9th episode of Digital Punch TV, the vlog that features breaking tech news, cool product reviews and random fun, we introduce the Solio Hybrid Solar Charger. It s the charger that needs no wall to plug into and can charge almost every type of electronics you own, including fish finders (I know you really were worried about that).We also asked for you to send us your New Year s resolutions. We will read the best of them on-air during the next show. Promise.To celebrate You being named Time Magazine s Person of the Year, we had our first in-studio interview with you. This is a must watch interview, trust us. (Also you might want to watch this interesting video with the founders of YouTube in the garage where it all started. Talk about humble beginnings to multi-billionaires!) Would you like to appear in an episode of Digital Punch? Well, you can! If you can make it downtown Chicago on a Friday afternoon, then you are eligible. Just send an email to digitalpunch@gmail.com with Digital Punch Co-Host in the subject line. As we usually do, we devoted time to your questions, comments and feedback. We value your feedback so please e-mail us, leave a comment/question or subscribe to our show!Thanks! -Digital Punch