Category Archives: Transitions
A recent study finds that family businesses are increasingly led by women and expect robust growth, yet many will likely face financial problems because they have not prepared for managerial and ownership succession, nor have they prepared an personal estate plan. Family businesses, increasingly led by women, need succession and financial planning.
People with moles age more slowly than others. It’s the telomeres. A drug called varenicline in a single pill could curb smoking and drinking. Made by Pfizer, varenicline has already been proven safe for people. Because the drug works on the same receptors in the brain to block the release of dopamine that pleasurable sensation [...]
Scientists and Australian beer maker Foster’s are teaming up to generate clean energy from brewery waste water — by using sugar-consuming bacteria…. — “It’s not going to make an enormous amount of power — it’s primarily a waste water treatment that has the added benefit of creating electricity,” Keller said.
Christopher Buckley’s new book, Boomsday, comically depicts the coming intergenerational war as boomers retire and collect on their entitlements funded by an increasing taxes on younger folks. Robert Samuelson takes note that ‘Boomsday’ is Approaching Cassandra Devine knows how to solve the coming “entitlements” crisis, preordained when the 77 million baby boomers begin hitting 65 in 2011: Pay retirees to kill themselves, a program she calls “transitioning.”
From Fast Company comes The Three Keys to Change, an excerpt from Alan Deutschman’s new book Change or Die.
Jackson’s face change on YouTube. It reminds me very much of the only novel Oscar Wilde wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I forgot to tell you all that I’m taking a break at least until after Labor Day, probably until September 8 or 9…. Since I want to stay outside in the last of the summer weather, I ‘m taking a vacation from the virtual world until I can come back refreshed and renewed.
In fact, according to social scientists, Generation Y has a respect for community and authority that makes it more akin to the 18-year-olds on the beaches of Normandy than the Y Generation’s baby boomer parents “This generation, the baby boomlet, is a very odd generation,” said Rachel Kleinfeld, 30, the founding director of the Truman National Security Project, a Democrat think tank…. If you were born after 1980, you are likely to gather your impressions of the world as much through MySpace as any front page.
No one writes better on the decline of Western civilization than Mark Stein, It’s breeding obvious, mate The question posed here tonight is very direct: “Does Western Civilization Have A Future?”… —- Seventeen European nations are now at what demographers call “lowest-low” fertility – 1.3 births per woman, the point at which you’re so far down the death spiral you can’t pull out.
With the costs of electricity so high and getting higher, with more and more appliances, devices, computers, peripherals all demanding their share from the grid, the idea that you could produce all the electricity that you need is very appealing. Springwise brings news of consumer-generated power using small wind turbines you can install on your roof.
