Economics & Business

"The workforce is a blend of traditionally trained baby boomers, in-your-face Gen Xers, people with inadequate literacy skills from disadvantaged areas, and techies raised on computers. Workplace talent requirements increasingly emphasize technical skills, flexibility, continuous learning, teamwork capacity, and communication. And jobs go begging due to the mismatch of skills and needs. All of that is happening while the old models of employment for life lie in shards on the floors of virtual offices, downsized organizations, and globally shifting distributions of work. ..."

"Nowadays, everyone is a business within the business. Furthermore, everyone must manage themselves. The old view was that individuals were the property of a boss. But now, most of us are on more than one team--a formal work team, task forces, quality groups, project teams, and so forth. The boss is a concept that no longer fits; each person has access to the full range of his or her responsibilities."

                                                         -- Patricia A. McLagan, in "Portfolio Thinking" (Training & Development -- Feb, 2000)

• Brain Power is becoming cheaper and cheaper? [08 Dec 2003]
  
  
• Does China represent the THIRD Industrial Revolution? [08 Dec 2003]
  
  
• Shark fins soup [22 Nov 2003]
  
  
• Monday, 10 November 2003
  (1) Profitable and Legal Pyramids or Networks
  (2) NEL Debacle -- a Non-profitable Network, plus Unrealistic Expectations, plus Group Think, plus duopoly
  
  
• The CPF question, again [03 July 2003]
  
  
• Gloom, gloom & gloom on the economic front [23 June 2003]
  
  
• "Is China eating everyone else's lunch - or enhancing it?" [21 June 2003]
  
  
• 24 May 2003
  (1) US Economy;
  (2) Singapore's Ministerial Paycut;
  (3) Buddhists' "Real" Peace of Mind
  
  
• Contrasts: Desperate Unemployment in Singapore vs Highly-Paid CEOs/Directors in Singapore [6 May 2003]
  
  
• Some old notes [05 May 2003]
  
  
• Health & Economics -- Some minor news continue to emphasize the relationship between health and economics [4 May 2003]
  
  
• True Entrepreneurship -- Singapore Companies & Economy in Trouble -- The bad news just keep on coming! Lay it on me, babe ... [03 May 2003]
  
  
• 01 May 2003 (Labor Day) -- Stories from a government man speaking at the NTUC May Day Dinner does not contrast much with a separate report about bearish Singapore business owners.
  
  
• (Temporary) Some More Stuff from pre-May 2003
  
  
• Kondratieff Curve -- some quotes about the Kondratieff Curve from various websites/webpages ... [24 April 2003]
  
  
• More Tourism Woes [23 April 2003]
  
  
• Economics History, of sorts [22 April 2003]
  
  
• Tourism Woes of the Year 2002 [21 April 2003]
  
  
• More bad news for retirees-to-be ... [20 April 2003]
  
  
• Rising Prices in Singapore [19 April 2003]
  
  
• Tourists continue to come to Singapore, despite Bali bombing [11 November 2002]
  
  
• PERC's FDI Rating of Singapore [September 2002]
  
  
• "Be Wild and Hungry Again" -- By Andrew Duffy -- here is an interesting viewpoint about Singapore needing to re-evaluate itself economically ... [05 April 2002]
  
  
• Entrepreneurosis -- a short quote on entrepreneurs ... [08 February 2002]
  
  
• Singapore's Cost of Living & "Resale" Public Housing Market [26 January 2002]
  
  
• July-August 2001 -- Some interesting tidbits ...