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Blog :: Getting Invited Back for a Second Interview

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It's happened to many of us. We go through a first interview thinking we've nailed it but the phone doesn't ring for a second interview. Sometimes it's due to poor job fit, but at other times there's something we've done which leaves a bad taste in the prospective employer's mouth. Watch for these problem areas and increase the likelihood of a call-back...

Blog :: The Magic of Motivation

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:56:25 GMT

Have you ever tried to get someone to do something he or she didn’t want to do? Did you try explaining all the mutual benefits, good reasons, rationale, win/win outcomes, and still get nowhere? Did it leave you wondering what went wrong?

The answer might lie in motivation.

Blog :: Making the Leap to Leadership

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It happens all the time: the outstanding worker promoted to management, the star performer as leader. Maybe it’s happened to you, or to someone you know. Maybe it happened to your own boss. Sometimes it’s a recipe for disaster.

Blog :: Team Harmony as News

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

No matter what industry you work in, no matter what function you perform, no matter where in the world you sit, there’s one thing you have to do: interact with people. When the interactions aren’t working, the “work” doesn’t happen. Such problems have a tremendous cost, yet are too often ignored.

Blog :: Labor Day is a wake, not a celebration

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:03:40 GMT

Labor Day is a wake, not a celebration

Blog :: THREE GORGES DAM CRUISE TO HADES?

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:43:15 GMT

There is an excellent front page article on the Three Gorges Dam in the Aug. 29 edition of the Wall Street Journal. In The Coming China Wars, I discuss the problems with the Three Gorges Dam in detail. Here’s an excerpt:

Blog :: THE CHINA EFFECT ON YOU TUBE

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:12:28 GMT

Click here to watch the complete webstream of Book TV’s presentation on The Coming China Wars. Note that to watch this, you must have a Windows Media Player. For a shorter version that will play right off you web browser on You Tube, click here. Now for this week’s China Effect:

Blog :: BOOK TV

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:46:16 GMT

Book TV will air The Coming China Wars

Blog :: THE CHINA EFFECT

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:45:36 GMT

#1: While the US is the world’s beef king, China far and away is the world’s leading pork producer. Unfortunately, China is also the world’s biggest source of mutant virus strains – think SARS.

Blog :: China: the defective-product king

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:31:19 GMT

Beijing's attitude about quality of its goods reflects its Maoist legacy.

Blog :: Providence Journal Oped

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:02:08 GMT

Peter Navarro: An unsporting Beijing Olympiad

Thursday, August 9, 2007, Providence Journal

PETER NAVARRO

IRVINE, Calif.

Blog :: My Notes for My Segment on Today's Power Lunch -- CNBC

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:59:33 GMT

This is the sample Q&A I prepared for an appearance on CNBC in response to a report in the Daily Telegraph (England) that "The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation."