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A good reading in Nielsen Wire regarding Nominal Growth in Europe. This is based on FMCG products tracked by Nielsen, in Europe. As you can see on the chart here-below, Nominal growth has remained stable around 3% for four consecutive quarters. The fourth quarter of 2009 has shown nominal growth at 2.9%, once again outperforming
XBOX LIVE NEWSBEAT: VOL. 5, MARCH 10, 2010 IN THE SPOTLIGHT With St. Patty’s day right around the corner, take the celebration with friends beyond the green get-up and Irish pubs – grab your controller and keep the Xbox LIVE Arcade Block Party rolling! Block Party’s “Scrap Metal™” (Microsoft) speeds onto Xbox LIVE Arcade on March
Today, we are all using services which are in the cloud. But what does it mean ? Steve Ballmer discussed, last week with students from Washington Universities, what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing that will change the way people and businesses use technology. To know more on this, just click HERE
Vety interesting Blog in Dumb Little Man – Tips for Life. To have the full article, just click HERE Here below, a sumarry of these 10 Amazing Lessons & quotes from Albert Einstein : 1.Follow Your Curiosity “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” 2.Perseverance is Priceless “It’s not that I’m so
The above video is an interesting look at the market’s reaction to Windows Phone 7. Nicholas Thompson, senior editor at Wired Magazine and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 7 software and the outlook for its Windows Phone 7 mobile-phone operating system. By the way, Thompson also
very good article (Blog by Scott R. Sheaffer) on the most stupid thinks you can do to a customer Sales Tips Blog by Scott R. Sheaffer – Threatening To Escalate – Making The Buyer Feel Stupid – Questions With An Agenda To sum-up Finesse is the art of delicacy, subtlety and skill. As sales professionals,
BBC News has a very cool interactive chart. This chart shows how Internet had grown from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world. In 1998, the only countries with significant Internet usage were USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden. You can see how quickly Western Europe adopted the
Very good reading from Chris Brogan. Just click HERE to take a look at the original article. I will take some inspiration and will come back with the things / tips that have been the most efficient for me BLOG.
I’m @ START (Microsoft) meeting today @ Seattle. In that framework, I’ve seen a demo of the New Windows Phone 7 Series. This is amazing how Microsoft will bring internet to the Consumer by creating an intergrated experience, including services as Windows Live, Facebook, Xbox Live, Zune, … Take a look at this Video explaining this
In the flight from Amsterdam to Seattle, I have discovered a good book from Mark Sanborn, called the Fred Factor. Good book as food for thought Is your professional commitment wavering? Do you just want to get the job done and go home? Find fresh energy and creativity for your life and work by imitating
Cool video, posted by Jesse Thomas, on State of the Internet. This video highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. This is amazing to see how fast it moves and how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives. There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of
We’ve implemented the Situational Leadership within my Team at Microsoft. The principle is that managers must use different leadership styles depending on the situation. You will find all the secrets of this in One Minute Manager. Click here if you want to order this book. The model allows you to analyze the needs of the situation
I’ve explained the concept of ONE MINUTE MANAGER to my team and suggested them to read the book of Ken Blanchard on this. Feedback from my team was very positive I really like this book as it is so simple and that you can read if fast and then you can write next pages during
Take a look at this VIDEO showing Great Quotes from Great Leaders My favorite quotes are : – If you can dream it, you can do it (Walt Disney) – Success is not final, failure is not fatal : it is the courage to continue that counts (Winston Churchill) – Failure is simply the opportunity
We’ve all seen the locker room speech. It’s in many a movie. The team, usually with no reason to be there, or having the talent but recently saddled with some heavy baggage, is hanging it’s heads. Then the coach storms in and whispers or shouts, or massages their egos in just the right way so
I don’t know if you have ever worked with a micro-manager? This is someone who thinks he or she needs to be involved in everything that happens within the company. These leaders are closing out the talents of others by not divesting themselves from the day-to-day problem-solving activities of the company. Great leaders let go
Interesting article in Harvard Business Review regarding Leadership. My take-out is a list of 5 things you can do to achieve self-awareness and personal mastery in leadership. •Monitor your performance. Note areas in which you excel and need improvement. Communicate these to your team. •Realize that failures and mistakes are just one step on the
The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance combines the complementary strengths of Yahoo! and Microsoft to create a competitive choice in search with the scale to fuel sustained development. Both companies aim to ultimately enable searchers to find relevant results faster, and provide more value for advertisers and better results for web publishers. If you look
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