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			"Russian Standard" Consolidates its Assets "Some Leaders are Born, Others Are Made," Says Karlin Sloan, Executive Coach 16% Of All US Adult Internet Users Influence Others By Word-Of-Mouth Online 36.6 Pharmacy Chain Will Launch a Hospital 36.6 Will Cut Store Openings This Year 3Com Corp. Has Been Acquired by Bain Capital Partners for $2.2 bln 5 Russian IT-companies Plan to Launch Social Network for Innovators 500 Largest US Companies Will Lose 50% of Their Senior Management in 5 Years 70% of Business Leaders Say They Think Most Creatively Away from Their Workplace A Client Can’t Find Time for Your Presentation A Client Doesn’t Accept Your Creative Idea A Client Raises Unexpected but Very Important Theme A Generation Y Leader Inspires by Enabling Others to Be Leaders A Serious Product Flow Directly before the Launch A Team Groups Around an Informal Leader against Its New Boss About the club Abraham Linkoln as a Talk-Show Star Accuracy, Reliability and Credibility of Information After Shareholders’ Conflict, Eugeny Kaspersky Becomes Kaspersky Lab’s CEO Alfa Capital Partners Became a Shareholder in the Yolky-Palky Russian Restaurant Chain Alfa Group Buys 50% of St. Petersburg Development Company Alfa Group’s Profit Grew to $1,66 bln Last Year. Alfa Capital Partners Became a Leader among Direct Investment Funds Altimo Starts a Foundation to Invest in Telecom Research and Education Projects in Southeast Asia Amazon Promotes its Web Services With Contest for Startups Amazon.com and Google Unveil New E-Books Services Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Anything Store Driven by “Two-Pizza Teams” Amazon’s Pursuit of Innovation Pays Off With 40% Share Price Gain AMD Loses Second Sales&Marketing Star in a Month Amgen Cuts Staff By 12-14%, Capital Expenditures By $ 1.9 Bln In Company's 27-year History First Restructuring Amount of Work Makes the Job Seem Impossible to Be Done An Employee is Responsible for a Serious Accident An Expensive Experimental Product Fails a Key Trial An Important Partner Feels Offended and Wants to Leave the Meeting Andrei Kosogov, Member of the Supervisory Board of Directors of Alfa Group Consortium Andrew S. Grove, Co-Founder, Intel Corp. Andrey Yanovsky, CEO, Nidan Soki Andy Pearson, Chairman and CEO, Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. Anita Roddick, Founder of Body Shop Cosmetics Chain, Dies at 64 Apple and Volkswagen Discuss the Possibility of Building an "iCar" Apple Inc.: Made of Passion, Style and Innovation Apple Launches iTunes TV Service in Britain Arbat Prestige May Leave the Market Artem Bektemirov: To Communicate Vision You Need to Have Passion Arthur D. Levinson, President and CEO, Genentech As Gen Y Continues to Enter the Workforce, Their Day Jobs Will No Longer Define Who They Are Asia, the World's Most Populous Region, Faces the Biggest Talent Shortage Asia-Pacific Region Is the New Battleground in the Global War for Management Talent Baltika Breweries, the leader in the Russian beer market, announces its annual financial results for 2007 Baltika to Sell Asahi Beer in Russia as Incomes Climb Barclays Acquires Russia's Expobank for $745 Million Bill Gates Sees no Threat from Google in Phone Software Bill Gates, Co-Founder and Chairman, Microsoft Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell Top List of IT Influencers Blake W. 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Lighthearted Look at Leadership Business Cartoons: Lighthearted Look at Leadership Business Owner Refuses to Share Profit as He Promised Hiring the Manager Businesses Learn How to Close the Generation Gap in the Workplace Can Howard Schultz Turn Starbucks Around? Capital International Buys $175 Million Stake in Unimilk Career Turning Point of Choosing Between Several Opportunities Carlos Ghosn Said Russia May Surpass Germany as Europe's Top Car Market in Two Years CEOs Keep More Literature and Poetry Books than Business Bestsellers in Their Private Libraries Champions and Inspirers Chinese Company Is Going to Buy Seagate, U.S. Disk Drive Manufacturer Chinese Investment Bank Starts an Aggressive Recruitment Campaign in U.S. Choose People, Not Companies CNN Stops Using Reuters News Service, Changing Content Gathering Strategy Coca-Cola Appoints Joe Tripodi As its New Chief Marketing Officer Comanies Need To Invest Long Term To Overcome Talent Shortage Blocking Corporate Growth Community Rules Community Update August 16 Community Update August 30 Community Update July 11 Community Update July 11 - Russian Version Companies Are Used to Edit Wikipedia to Mend Their Online Reputation Companies Like Google Embrace Online Games at Workplace, Others Forbid Them Companies Tend to Use Mentoring Programs to Develop Future Leaders Companies Worldwide Face Leadership Crisis - IBM Study Company’s Usual Meetings Are Unproductive and Formal Company’s Usual Meetings Are Unproductive and Formal Competencies Framework of Peter Senge Competencies Framework of Rudolf Giuliani Competencies Frameworks of Jack Welch Competency Story 1 Competency Story 2 comScore Launches Second Generation Search Measurement Tool qSearch 2.0 Contact Us Content Rules and Disclaimer Context Advertising Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy Costly Project Heading to a Dead-End on an Advanced Phase CTC Media Makes Large Purchase in CIS Media Market Dee Hock, Founder of VISA International Dee Hock, the Founder of VISA International Dell and Home Depot Strengthen Training for Front-Line Managers Dell Opens Retail Store in Moscow and Appoints Head of the Company's Russian Office Deloitte and Other Big 4 Companies Are at the Top of The Best Places to Work for Graduates Devoted Employees Won’t Face the Reality Disclaimer and Participants’ Conduct Do You Categorize Your Followers? During the Last Decade Britain Emerged as a World Leader in the Knowledge Economy EBay Launches "Neighborhoods" Social Network eBay: Built on the Belief in People’s Basic Goodness Eco-Friendly Policies Help Companies Attract Young Talent and Increase Productivity Electronics Retailer Eldorado Plans IPO Employee Doesn’t Fit for the Job Employees are Demoralized by Company’s Bad Management and Performance Employees are Demotivated by Corporate Bureaucracy Employees Are Skeptical About You as Their New Boss Employees Uninspired by Leader and Feel Depressed Employees’ Loyalty to an Organization Has Loosened Last Years, Survey Revealed Employers Implement New Policies to Accommodate Gen Y Workers Esther Dyson Is Surprised at People's Carelessness with Their Personal Information Euroset Plans to Capture the Market of Mobile Content Evroset Sales Rose Last Year to $5.6Bln Facebook Announced Behavioral Advertising System Facebook Is Working on a New Advertising System Facebook's Microsoft Deal May Boost Options Prices, Hurting Ability to Lure Top Talent Facebook: the Most Widely Available Product of Harvard Facebook’s New “Social” Ad Technology Has Drawn Mixed Reviews from Internet-Watchers Father’s no More a Leader Find Out About Your Leadership Traits at Good2Work! Forbes Commentary on Russia Today English Language TV Channel Forbes published this article in November 2007. I found some interesting points in it on Spitzer’s behavior. Force Majeur Factor as a Test for Basic Values Force Majeur Factor as a Test for Leader’s Qualities in Extreme Circumstances Former AOL and Fox Interactive Executives Are Starting Internet Investment Firm Fortune Published Interview with Chrysler's CEO Nardelli and Top Execs Four Leading Russian Online Gaming Companies Join into a Holding, Creating Largest Player in the Market Free Video Lecture Podcasts From Top Universities Gary Hamel: We Are on the Threshold of a Post-Managerial Society GE Doubles ‘Green’ Sales In Two Years GE Shrinks its 128-year-old Light-bulb Business in Response to Global Green Pressure Gen Y'ers Are Conservative in Their Lifestyle Gen Yers Are Starting Businesses Earlier and at a Faster Rate than 35 to 44-year-olds Gen Yers’ Familiarity with the Technology Enables them to be Proactive in Job Search Genentech Lets Its People Earn with Passion and Joy Genentech, the Best Company to Work For in 2006 (according to Fortune), lets its people earn with passion and joy General Electric Leads in the Top Companies for Leaders 2007 Global Ranking Generation Yers Refuse to Work for Employers Who Engage in Unethical Business Practices George Reyes to Retire as Google CFO Gleb Arkhangelsky: How talking to my boss helped me understand that my hobby is my vocation Global Brands Want to Go Blogging Global Car Makers Redefine the Meaning of "Low Cost" Cars Gloria Jeans Has Invited Former Adidas Executive Golden Telecom May Buy Corbina Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Good2Work Community Update Good2Work Update and Offline Event Google Acquired a Stake in Chinese Сommunity Web site Tianya.cn Google Becomes First End-User Licensee of Open Invention Network Extending The Linux Ecosystem Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion and Thus Prevents Microsoft’s Expansion in Online Search Market Google Buys Mobile Social Networking Start-up Zingku Google Expands the Volume of Mobile Ads Google Has 53% Share of the Today’s Search Market, Yahoo 20%, Microsoft 13% Google Hires a Consulting Firm to Help Companies Use its Google Apps Service Google Introduces Hosted Site Search for Small Businesses Google Is Closing Gap with Rival Baidu in China Google Is Trying to Become an Operator of a Wireless Communications Network Google Lags Behind its Competitors in Asia-Pacific Region Google Launches Local Business Referrals Program Google Looses To Yahoo In Customer Satisfaction According To ACSI Index Google Plans to Expand Staff in Europe to Avoid an Image of Aggressive American Multinational Google Releases OpenSocial, Seeking Bigger Role in Social Networking Google Shuts its Video Service and Gives Full Refunds to its Customers Google Sponsors $30 Million Moon Challenge Contest Google Will Use Russian Payment System Rapida Google's Plans for Mobile Phone Business Include Running its Own Mobile Network Google: Making the World a Better Place Can Be a Good Way to Earn Growth in Starbucks Sales Revenue has Slowed Habitual Management Style Which Worked Before Doesn’t Fit Anymore Hewitt Associates Conducted the ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ Study Highly Overqualified Person on a Low-level Job Highly-Regarded Consultants Advice is Contrary to Your Gut Feeling Hiring a Key Person for the Risky and Costly Urgent New Project Home Depot Sells its Wholesale Distribution Business for $8.5 Billion How Andrey Kosogov Formed a New Team When No Investment Professionals Were Available in Russia How Andrey Kosogov Joined Alfa Via Newspaper Ad How Andrey Yanovsky Moved from a Global Corporation to a Young Russian Company How Andy Grove Met a Man Who Learned to Manage His Own Career How Andy Pearson at Age 76 Transformed Himself into a New Kind of Boss How Art Levinson Didn’t Give Way to Panic and Produced a Billion Dollar Blockbuster How Art Levinson IncitedGenentech’s Management Team Dressed As The Six Dwarfs And Snow White To Rush Into Their Archrival’s Lobby To Make A Picture How Art Levinson Prompted Genentech Top Managers to Play a Trick on Incoming Research Chief Richard Scheller How Bill Gates Learned To Be Alert To Bad News How Bill Hewlett Cut the Padlock off the Lab Stock Door on a HP plant How Birger Steen Lost His Internet Company and Came in Microsoft How Boris Volpe Had Not Agreed With His Bosses How Branson Appreciated Reality Show Participant’s Ability To Calculate Risk How Branson Launched Virgin Records as a Shop and Then as a Record Lable How Branson Spent A Night in Prison and Got Strongest Incentive to Make His Company Grow Fast How Branson’s Virgin Group Went Public and Then Got Back Private to Save Its Reputation How Brin and Page Retained Control Over Google After First Big Outside Investment How Dee Hock Acted When the Owner Did not Keep his Word and Refused to Share Profit How Dee Hock Dug in the Garbage Cans to Find a Lost Deposit How Dee Hock Invented the New Credit Card Common Worldwide Name with All His Staff Help How Dee Hock Plunged into the Ocean to Pursue the Offended Important Partner How Dee Hock Took Up “Retirement on the Job” How Dee Hock “Borrowed” Bank Executives to work under Clerical Employees Supervision How Dell Made More Money than His School Teacher and Learned to Segment the Market How Fred Deluca Found Success By Way of the Submarine Sandwich How Gerstner Listened to a Retired IBMer’s Advice and Hired Sales Specialists How Gerstner Supported an Employee Who Was Regarded as a Misfit, and It Payed Off How Google Guys Solved the Problem of Google’s Presence in China How Hock Saw Spontaneous Order out of Chaos Fighting at Crisis Night with Office Machines How Hock’s Boss Let Him Work Full Time in Public Interest Retaining his Position as VP How HP chose human oriented philosophy and succeed How IBM Board Member Jim Burke Persuaded Gerstner to Put His Career At Stake How Ingvar Kamprad Laid The Basis of The IKEA concept How Jack Welch by Hard Work Won over Product Flaw That Nearly Ruined His Career How Jack Welch Put His Superior on Trial Period and Learned about Differentiation How Jack Welch Turned Meetings with Wall Street's Analysts into Intellectual Duels How Jack Welch Used Bad Example Method to “Kick” a Top Performer When Needed How Jack Welch Won the GE CEO Race by Doing What He Thought Was Right How Jeff Bezos Chose His Own Business instead of Successful Career as an Employee How Jeff Bezos Flew to Japan to Deliver a Customer’s Order How Jobs Enticed the President of PepsiCo To Become His CEO of Apple How Lou Gerstner Fired an Executive Who Could Not Make Unpopular Decisions How Lou Gerstner Got IBM To Dance How Lou Gerstner Made His First Steps as the IBM Boss How Lou Gerstner Used His McKinsey Consultant Experience in IBM How Michael Dell Decided to Start His Own Business How Michael Dell Learned to Delegate How Nordstrom Saved Family Business Giving “Nice People” the Freedom to Dump the Rules How Omidyar Received Financial Backing from an Investor without a Business Plan How Omidyar's Internet Service Provider Pushed Him to Make Money on His Hobby Project How Page and Brin Changed Web Ads Completely but Stuck to Their Principles How Pearson Helped Disgruntled COO to Become Tricon’s Most Productive Top Executive How Pierre Omidyar Brought Money into eBay by Hiring the Right Person as CEO How Pierre Omidyar Created a Web Cite to Help His Girlfriend and It Grew into eBay How Pierre Omidyar Found The Most Effective Way to Solve Disputes Between eBay Users How Pierre Omidyar ‘Squeezes Himself Through the Door of Opportunity’ How Resignation of a Key Executive Made Andrey Kosogov Reconsider the Whole Business How Ricardo Semler Fired a Tough Leader How Rudolf Giuliani Became "America's Mayor" on 9/11/2001 How Rudolph Giuliani Learned to Start with Small Things and Achieve the Larger Result How Sam Walton in His Early Days Learned One of the Leadership Secrets How Sammons Saved Rite Aid through Giving Its Employees the Feeling that They Are Valued How Schultz Talked to 242 Potential Investors and 217 of Them Said “No” How Sergey Brin and Larry Page Hired Erich Schmidt, Not Wishing To Hire Anybody At All How Sergey Petrov left the Soviet Army to start his own business How Steve Jobs Broke Macintosh Keyboard Yearning to Restore Apple in His Own Way How Steve Jobs Hired a Star Salesman from IBM Just Showing Him a Monitor Stand How Steve Jobs Hired the Key Man for the iPod Project How Steve Jobs Made Young Apple a Client of the High-Statured Ad Agency How Steve Jobs Talked Bill Gates into Investing in Apple How Steve Jobs Was Fired From Apple and Entered His Life’s Best Period How Steven Spielberg Got His First Job How Teenage Jobs Called Bill Hewlett to Order Parts and Got Summer Job How Walton Was ‘Kicked out of Town’ by Landlord who Wanted to Give His Store to a Son How We Leveraged the Team Effort to Select the Name for This Project How Welch after a Serious Accident Learned about Importance of Encouragement How Welch Personally Learned a New Method to Apply It at GE How Welch Put a Right Person to Head GE Medical Business and Won over Competitor How ‘New Boss’ Andrey Yanovsky Came to Agreement with the Informal Leader and Kept the Whole Team How “Finance For Little Folks” Helped Welch to Turn GE Credit into Big GE Capital Howard Schultz, Chief Global Strategist and Chairman of Starbucks Howard Schultz, Chief Global Strategist and Chairman, Starbucks HP Launches Web-based Printing Services I Watched, I Learned, I Managed IBM and Google Start a Program on College Campuses to Promote Cloud Computing IBM and O2 Teams Are Among Finalists for the Personnel Today Magazine’s Talent Management Award IBM Launches Center for CIO Leadership IBM Staff Plan to Hold First Virtual Strike in Second Life IBS Appointed the Head of its HR-consulting Practice iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business If You're Productive, What’s Your Price? Igor Salita, CEO, Jackpot Igor Salita: How I Had to Investigate a Robbery Igor Salita: Revolution in Mars Igor Salita: The Price of the White Label Igor Salita: The Risky Appointment Ilias Aliev: The Question Should Destroy The Brain Important Project to be Launched in the Impossible Short Period of Time Impossibility to Break Through on a Monopolized Market In a Pool with an Employer In Spite of Major Labels Laments, Everything in the Music Industry is Up, Except CDs Sales In the International War for Talent, Cities Will Combat to Attract the Best Talent from Generation Y India and Japan Become Economic Allies to Hedge Against China’s Growth India Will Be Human Capital Mine for the Next 50 Years, KPMG Partner Argues Indian Bank ICICI Ties Up With Colleges and Universities to Create a Talent Pool Indian Company Wipro Outsourced 500 Jobs to Atlanta in the U.S. Indian IT Companies Create ‘Shadow Talent Pool’ Ingvar Kamprad, Founder, IKEA Intel Studies Russian Middle Class, Aiming to Customize its Products for Russian Country-Homes Internet Venture Entrepreneurs Launched a Reality Show ‘The Next Internet Millionaire’ Introduction for Potential Partner Organization Investment-Advisory Firms Face a Talent Shortage along with an Inflow of Clients Investors' Favorite Female CEOs Investors' Online Communities Grow In Popularity: TradeKing, Zecco, Thinkorswim.com iPhone Sales Outperformed BlackBerry’s and Other's Leading Smartphone Brands Is U.S. heading to recession? Dean advises MBA students: Prepare to engage in some missionary selling, to help employers discover your talent. Jack Welch in Defence of Gen Yers Jack Welch Shared His Message of Leadership, Globalization and Values on AFP Conference Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO, General Electric Jack Welch: Ability to see around corners Jack Welch: Authenticity Jack Welch: Edge (the courage to make tough yes-or-no decisions) Jack Welch: Energize (the ability to energize others) Jack Welch: Energy (positive energy) Jack Welch: Execute (the ability to get the job done) Jack Welch: Gen Yers are Driven, Thoughtful, Open-Minded and Candid Jack Welch: Heavy-duty resilience Jack Welch: If a candidate has the four Es, then you look for that final P - passion Jack Welch: Leaders celebrate Jack Welch: Leaders establish trust with candor, transparency, and credit Jack Welch: Leaders get into everyone's skin, exuding positive energy and optimism Jack Welch: Leaders have the courage to make unpopular decisions and gut calls Jack Welch: Leaders inspire risk taking and learning by setting the example Jack Welch: Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it Jack Welch: Leaders probe and push with a curiosity that borders on skepticism, making sure their questions are answered with action Jack Welch: Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence Jack Welch: Strong penchant to surround themselves with people better and smarter than they are. Jack: Straight from the Gut Japan Aims to Replace the Internet with a New Network Technology Jeff Bezos, Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Amazon.com Jere Calmes named President at Pharmacy Chain 36.6 John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, Started His Own Blog on Zaadz.com Kaspersky Lab and Yandex Are the only Two Russian Technology Ventures among the "Red Herring 100 Global" Finalists Kaspersky Lab’s Antivirus Has Become One Of 10 The Most Popular Softwares Sold Through Amazon.com Keeping a Promise When It Turns out to be Much More Difficult Than It Was Supposed to Be Key Employee Can’t Devote Himself to a Job Because of His Family Member Illness Key Employee Has Decided to Leave the Company Feeling Undervalued Key Employee Is Firmly Resolved to Leave the Company in Protest Key Executive Has Turned out to Be Deeply in Debts Key Executive Wants to Quit Because of Unfair IPO Money Distribution Key Manager Wants to Devote Himself to Big Risky Project in Public Interest Kip Tindell, Co-founder, CEO, The Container Store Lack of Facts Needed to Make a Final Decision Lack of Funding for Growth Lack of Funding for Growth Lack of Funding for Hobby Project Lack of Funding for Making a Breakthrough Lack of Funding for Start Lack of Human Resources for Managing the Increasing Number of Clients’ Requests Lack of Information to Determine Company’s Real Strengths and Weaknesses Lack of Knowledge to Develop Business Lack of Resources for Settling Disputes between Clients Larry Ellison, Co-Founder, CEO, Oracle Corp. Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products, Google Inc. Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership Leadership Development in Companies Moved from Training "Just in Case" to Focused Learning Leadership Lesson from a Futuristic Rock Climber Leading By Design: The Ikea Story Legal Mistake Allows Landlord to Take Over Successful Business Lenovo, Chinese Computer Maker, To Build New Plants In Mexico And India Lenta Considers Equity Sale to Fund Superstores Leonid Novoselsky: The Ability to Trust People Local Licensing London Is Affirmed as a Center for Global Wealth Loss of a Job Louis Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO, IBM Magnit February Sales Rise 48% on Russian Supermarket Openings Major Social Networking Sites Substantially Expanded Their Global Presence Making a Decision in a Situation with Hardly Calculated Risk Management Team Can’t Find New Worldwide Name for Major Product Management Team Prevents a Company from Much Needed Radical Change Manufacturing Has a Negative Image for Generation Y. Attracting Workers Becomes Difficult Many of the Young, Talented Russians Who Left Their Home Country in the Late 90s Are Coming Home Many of Those Who Build Plans on Online Ads May Be Disappointed, CEO of Publicis Warned Maritz Poll Identified Six Leader-Supervisor Personality Profiles Maritz Poll Issued a New Research on Generation Y Buying Behavior Mary F. Sammons, President and CEO, Rite Aid Corporation Mary F. Sammons, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rite Aid Corporation Maxim Donde: Successful Demotion Medvedev Win May Aid Gazprom, Transneft, Sberbank, Claim Investment Analysts MegaFon Plans to Lead IPO Next Year Michael Dell's Return Starts to Pay Off: Dell Inc. Is Showing Signs of Turnaround Michael Dell, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Dell Inc. Microsoft and Adobe Develop Web-Based Data Services Microsoft and Siemens Will Develop In-Car Infotainment Products Microsoft Buys 1.6% Stake In Facebook for $240 million, Betting on Web Ad Boom Microsoft is in Talks to Buy a Minority Stake in the Facebook Midsummer at Good2Work: business cartoons and real online coaching. Community update 26 July 26, 2007. Mikhail Fridman Quits as Alfa Bank Сhairman Mobile Business Data Services to Generate over $100 Billion by 2012 - ABI Research Modern Times Sells DTV to CTC Media for $395 Million Monster and Bank of America Join to Help High School Students Develop Smart Money Management Skills Monster.com Hired Two New Executives to its Management Team Monster.com Launches First Service Designed to Promote Availability of Green Jobs Monster.com Launches Video Profile Service, Enabling Employers to Integrate Video in Job Postings Monster.com Study: Employers Undervalue Work/Life Balance Initiatives' Impact on Recruitment More CEOs Are Saying No to Bonuses Morgan Stanley Bought 13.33% of Russian Retail Chain Dixy for $114,4 mln Moscow Alfa Group Buys Major Russian Auto Dealer Nezavisimost for $170 mln Most Companies Treat Talent Issues Separately, Which Is a Critical Error, Researchers Say MTS Third-Quarter Profits Are Up 35% MTV Launches Social Network to Encourage Youth Activism Murdoch Plans To Make WSJ.com Content Free Hoping To Earn Much More From Online Ad Mutual Corporate Culture (Dress-code) Misunderstanding MySpace & MTV will Host Dialogue for Presidential Candidates and Voters MySpace Is Looking for a Marketing Executive in Russia MySpace Launches Self-Serve Ad Service MySpace Will Launch its Local Versions in Russia, Brasil, India and Poland Nau: Welcome to Retail 2.0 New Economy Digest New Facebook Tool Helps to Build New Friendship Networks via Bluetooth New Global Leaders Must Be Multilingual and Have Several Years of Living Abroad, the Study Suggests New Market of Video-Game Ads To Reach $800 mln in Five Years New Social Networking Sites Aim at Older Generations Newly released book Millennial Leaders Tells Success Stories from Today's Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders News: 36.6 Buys Siberian Pharmacy Chain News: AFK Sistema Wins India Telecoms License News: Baltika Hired a New Sales Vice-President News: Carlsberg Gets Full Control of Baltic Beverages Holding News: Euroset and X5 Retail Group Entered the Top-250 of the Largest Retailers Worldwide News: Euroset Owners Will Sell 25% Share of the Company News: Google Became a Second Biggest Player on Russian Search Market News: IBS DataFort Became a First Russian Company to Implement the Integrated Management System News: Kaspersky Launches Hosted Service in UK News: Kellogg Buys United Bakers Group, Russian Biggest Breakfast Cereal Maker News: MegaFon Sees $1.7 bln Investment in 2008 and Appoints a New Executive News: Microsoft Will Invest $10 millions in Retail Chains Worldwide, Including Russia News: MTS Subscriber Base Grows by 12.5% News: MySpace Opened its Russian Version News: Nokia and Huawei Won MegaFon’s 3G Contract News: Rosinter Restaurants Develop Option Program for Managers News: Russian Companies Hope to Attract Record Funds Through Global IPOs This Year News: Russian Standard Vodka Launches a New Brand Distribution in India News: The First Russian Airways Discounter Sky Express Joined 20 Largest Airlines In a Year News: Troika Dialog Asset Management Entered Ukrainian Market News: Vimpelcom's Izosimov Will Stay CEO Until 2010 News: Wal-Mart May Enter Russia within a Year, UBS Research Assume News: X5 Retail Group Wants to Buy Karusel Chain News: Yandex Enters Top-10 of Largest Search Engines Worldwide News: Yandex Named a 2008 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum Newspapers Continue to Lose Print Ads, But Gain Online Next Economy Monitor and Digest Nokia Shifts into Music and Gaming Services Market Nucor: Decentralized Authority and Sense of Individual Responsibility Number of Mobile Social Networks Users To Reach 600m By 2012, User Generated Revenues To Rise Tenfold Office Robbery Threatens Business Idea and Manager’s Good Name One of Simple Secrets of Leadership from Young Sam Walton Online Ads Spending Will Grow Even if a Downturn Squeezes the Ad Sector Online Groups And Blogs Better To Reach Gen Y Shoppers Than Text Messaging Only 7% of Business Leaders Are Willing to Pay for Online Business News Only Resource-Oriented Companies Represent Russia in the BCG’s List of 100 Emerging Giants Open Communication is a Must-Do for Every Business-Leader, Boris Scherbakov Says Oracle and Adobe Systems Report Sharp Rise of Quarter Profit Oracle’s Expanding through Acquisitions Proves Success: Company Posted 25% Rise in Profit Organizations Not Adequately Prepared for Impending Employee ''Brain Drain'' Our Partners Our Solution for Founding Partners Outside Analysts Are Not Ready for New Communication Style of Company’s CEO Pano Logic, Silicon Valley start-up, Uses Virtualization Technology to Replace Personal Computers Participant's Public Content License Patagonia: the Company That Limits Its Growth and Fights for Protection of Nature Patrick Aghanian: How to Diagnose Situation Patrick Aghanian: How to Set and Communicate Vision People Say an Employee is a Misfit but Your Gut Feelings Say He Can Be Useful Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners Are Recognized as the Best Employer in Russia PepsiCo’s Leadership Development Approach Includes Career-Growth and Talent-Management Models Perform-or-Die Culture Led to Lack of Talent and Leadership in U.S. Financial Sector Personal Competencies 1 Role Models Peter Aven Estimated Financial Business of Alfa Group for $10 bn Peter Senge: Ask your partners questions you can’t answer Peter Senge: Create organizational environment for profound change Peter Senge: Hold creative tension Peter Senge: Lead by example Peter Senge: Share leader’s role with leadership community Petty Breach of Company’s Corporate Culture Principles Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Announced 9 Month Financial Results Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Launched a New Line of Private Label Cosmetics Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Raises $115 mln in Share Issue Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Strengthens its Positions in Southern Russia Physical Disability Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman, eBay Police in China's Capital Launch Web Patrols Privacy Policy Private Bankers Are Forced to Recruit From Outside of Conventional Circles Due to Talent Competition Private Equity Industry Is in a Slowdown, Tending to Talent May Help, Researchers Say Product Placement Moves Online Promoted Person Appears to Be Wrong for the Job Recalls of Chinese Goods Inspired a Full-Scale Restructuring of the Economy in China Results of a Brainstorming Session about Online Coaching of the Good2Work Team with Igor Salita, CEO Jackpot Ricardo Semler, CEO and majority owner, Semco SA Richard Branson and Other Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs Support Gen Y Focused Start-up Richard Branson Launches Virgin Radio in Middle East Richard Branson Plans to Float His Virgin Active to Attract £1bn Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Brings Space Tourism to India Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Richard Branson, the Founder of Virgin Group Richard Branson: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Risk to Be Imprisoned and Necessity to Pay a Very Large Sum of Money in a Short Time Rite Aid Pharmacy Hired New COO Rolf Group’s President and COO Matt Donnelli Leaves the Company Rosinter and Whitbread Will Open 200 Costa Coffee Stores in Russia Next Year Rosinter Joined up With Belgravia and Immo Industry to Develop Business Parks across Russia RSS Ruben Vardanian, Troika Dialog: “I Value My Company’s Managers’ Ambitions to Become Extra Successful” Rudolf Giuliani: Be an Optimist Rudolf Giuliani: Communication Rudolf Giuliani: Develop and Communicate Strong Beliefs Rudolf Giuliani: Have Courage Rudolf Giuliani: Prepare Relentlessly Rudolf Giuliani: Start Small With Success Rudolf Giuliani: Teamwork Rudolph Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City Russia Attracted Record Foreign Investment in 2007 Russia's Leading Network of Pharmacies 36.6 Is to Raise $111 mln in October SPO Russia's Leading Pharmacy 36.6 Acquired 4 Local Chains, Opens Its 1000th Store Russia's No. 3 Mobile-phone Company MegaFon Starts Using Nokia Software Russia's Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Sales Rose by 70.6 Percent Year-on-Year to $592 mln Russian Alfa Bank Sponsors Livejournal To Promote Its Services Among Young Web Users Russian Cell Operators VimpelCom and MTS Stock Is Traded With a Premium Against Foreign Competitors Russian Fund Finam Bought 10% in the British Social Network Badoo.com Russian Internet Portal Mail.ru Is Valued at $1 bn - so far the Highest Valuation for a Russian Web Asset Russian Lagrest Cell Operator to Bid for Stake in Ukraine's National Telephone Company Russian Largest Mobile Handset Retailer Euroset May Withdraw from Over-Regulated Markets in CIS Russian Leading Auto Dealer Rolf Group to Enter India in 2008 Russian Mobile Operator VimpelCom Has Accepted New Strategy And Now Is Aiming to Buy Its Rivals Abroad Russian Mobile Operators Will Launch Blackberry Sales Soon Rustam Tariko Plans to Make Russian Standard One of the Leading Global Brands Salesforce.com’s New Initiative Helps Companies Develop 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