Reading of the Day!

Boardroom Lessons from a Social Media Misstep

A Groupon offer for "Fatboy" beanbags leads Harvard blogger Lucy P. Marcus on an enlightening journey

By Lucy P. Marcus

Proposes a Social-Media Ban

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Posted on Harvard Business Review: August 12, 2011 9:55 AM

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http://www.businessweek.com/management/boardroom-lessons-from-a-social-media-misstep-08122011.html

Word of the Day: Amaranthine

Amaranthine

Definition:   unfading; everlasting.

-adjective

Unfading; everlasting.
Of or like the amaranth flower.
Of purplish-red color.

Though she had been made an amaranthine immortal when she was twelve years of age, she'd had to wait for her extraordinary abilities until her body matured to its most perfect state before fully transforming.

- Kim Lenox, Darker Than Night,

It made him jealous to imagine them lost in this amaranthine profundity.

- Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street,

Quote of the Day:

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”

~ Frank Tyger  (1929-2011)

Reading of the Day!

As market melts down, some are saying 'Buy!'

One shchool of thought for big investors is that stocks are a steal right now

By DAVID K. RANDALL

NEW YORK — Not since the financial crisis in 2008 has the Dow Jones industrial average fallen so far, so quickly. Yet for professional investors on Wall Street, the fears that have buckled financial markets over the last week are creating opportunities.
To read more click the link below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44065309/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/