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Management
Why Niche Creation is Where It’s At – The Hart Technique
When you embody a niche in the market, you have fewer competitors. Therefore you also have more opportunities. Opportunities have a way of snowballing. Work begets work. The more you work, the more you work.
via Why Niche Creation is Where It’s At | The Hart Technique.
Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged – Scott Edinger – HBR
The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself – Heidi Grant Halvorson – HBR
A set of ingenious studies conducted by Stanford’s Zakary Tormala and Jayson Jia, and Harvard Business School’s Michael Norton paint a very clear picture of our unconscious preference for potential over actual success.
via The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself – Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review.
How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself Facing Federal Charges – ProPublica
ProPublica has taken a close look at the Caramadre case because it offers a window into a larger issue: The transformation of the life insurance industry away from its traditional business of insuring lives to peddling complex financial products. This shift has not been a smooth one. Particularly during the lead up to the financial crisis, companies wrote billions worth of contracts that now imperil their financial health.
In a series of detailed interviews, Caramadre said the companies designed the rules; all he did was exploit them. Their hunger for profits in a period of dizzying growth and competition, he contends, left them vulnerable to someone with his unusual acumen. The companies have argued in court that Caramadre is a fraud artist who should return every last dime he made. In his rulings to date, the federal judge hearing the civil cases has agreed with Caramadre’s contention that he was doing what the fine print allowed.
by Jake Bernstein
ProPublica, Aug. 24, 2012
Well written and well researched, this article is worth reading. An article from the Wall Street Journal in 2010 also makes for good reading and that link is below.
Investors Recruit Terminally Ill to Outwit Insurers on Annuities – WSJ.com.
BBC News – Aviva to cut up to 800
Baby Boomers: Will We Really Rock On Forever?
Baby boomers, now between 48 and 67 years old, have already shown a greater propensity to suicide than previous generations, according to a data analysis from researchers at Rutgers University and Emory University. Male boomers had abnormally high suicide rates in their teen and early 20s, peaking for many boomers at 26 suicides per 100,000 lives at an age when the rate among next older generations were below 20 suicides per 100,000 lives, data showed. Patterns were similar for women, though their rates are lower, Emory epidemiologist Ellen Idler said.
401k Loan Gold – Employee Benefit News
401k loan gold seen on Capitol Hill – Articles – Employee Benefit News.
Pretty stiff content copyright on Reuters articles. I’ve provided the link but no quotes or frames. The article is worth reading.
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The Rise of the Creative Service Worker – Big Think
The Rise of the Creative Service Worker | Think Tank | Big Think.
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