Articles by Jack Marino

Last time, we began the discussion about how companies will have to define their core competencies in this new global workplace.

In discussing the subject of Wikinomics – a term used to describe a new model for collaborative economic activity in the global, digital age – we have shown how companies can offer new technologies faster than ever thought possible using resources that are not part of their traditional structure.

There was a recent article in The Wall Street Journal by Andy Kessler discussing how video games have supplanted the military in the development of some of our newest technologies.

Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing some ideas of how businesses will be transformed by forces under the description of Wikinomics.

Some call it the “baby-boom echo,” but the generation born between 1977 and 1996 is actually bigger than the boom generation.

A few weeks ago we talked about the changing role of management in the new economy. We only touched on the tip of the iceberg.

This latest recession supposedly ended in late 2009, but many companies are just beginning to see the turn.

This week I want to wander a bit from our discussions on management problems to discuss the insane debate going on in Washington about tax rates.

We have been discussing how Alan Murray, in some new work, and Peter Drucker, from work published many years before the modern world of instant communications, saw the demise of the modern corporation.

For the last couple of weeks we have been reviewing an article by Alan Murray from his new book The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management. One of the