Challenges In The News 09/13/08

The challenge for Blue State (which does not disclose earnings and revenues) is to ride the Obama wave while diversifying it’s business – particularly overseas, where it sees opportunities. “We will always maintain a progressive idealism.”

Near the end, Binders takes up a classic management challenge: recruiting and retaining star employees.

Here are creative ways families and advisers have tackled the challenge of maintaining peace while dividing the family heirlooms.
The challenges: Too many JMOs can’t seem to get the military’s necessary bureaucracy out of their systems, and as a result, they tend to embrace rules and regulations that can slow them down. Second and last, some officers can lack visionary thinking. They may have risked their lives in the military, but some JMOs seem less inclined to take risks in business. On balance, there is no balance.

In your opinion, what are some of the positive traits of leaders from the Armed Forces who you’ve seen enter business and what challenges do they face?
Building a sustainable enterprise is the real challenge for CEOs today. With markets in a state of continuous turbulence, there is no choice but to find new ways to maintain growth and leadership postions.

That’s why state and federal judges overwhelmingly uphold arbitration awards challenged in their courtrooms.

Going green is not only good for the environment, it’s good for the bottom line. We met one-on-one with 1,130 CEOs and business leaders from around the world to get their unique perspectives on the environment, the population explosion and other challenges and opportunities facing their organizations.
Now, as the initial tech development has wound down, the organization faces a more daunting challenge: deploying and integrating millions of laptops in schools and communities. If something goes awry, the fragile credibility it has stitched together in recent weeks could rip apart.

The big idea of giving PCs to poor children was challenged by educators and business.

Such are the challenges of introducing not just a strange new machine but an alien world to a child brought up in isolation from outside culture.