yet-more US dinosaurs, dinosoars, carbon capture and storage, Alberta tar sands, shale sands, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, second-generation biofuels
Asian Chemical Connections
In search of corporate paradise
Financial meltdown, Virgin Blue, the perfect boss, slow email replies, Brett Godfrey, the Australian Financial Review, airline industry
Obama’s impact on Asian petchems
The new energy New Deal, death of the Asian export model, new types of growth, bankers,
Buy small and local to survive
logistics, credit crisis, financial meltdown, inventory management, plastic packaging
All those wasted lives – but at least you got your bonus
Mr Obscenely Rich Got Out In Tiime Banker, please look into these eyes, see the pain from the last Great Depression and maybe you will give some of your obscenely huge bonus towards poverty relief. And perhaps also you’ll be willing to pay for all the counselling that the children of this new Great Depression […]
Uncle Karl is back in fashion
Karl Marx, The Miner’s Strike, Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, capitalism, financial meltdown
Even Middle East budgets are being cut
Middle East budget cuts, margin slide, financial meltdown, China demand, rising capital costs
Is your company truly globalised?
Globalisation is an attitude of mind as what might now be a slightly descredited economic doctrine. Many companies are international but few – from talking to friends and contacts – are truly global in the sense that they recruit senior managers from all regions (not just the country in which their head office is located) […]
Would you pass the Koala Bear test?
carbon footprint, Yanchep National Park, Perth, Western Australia, globalisation
“Real” people start to suffer even more
Bradford and Bingley, UK, auto industry, consumer spending, plastic packaging, financial meltdown