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Real Life “Blood Diamond”

May 25th, 2011

The film Blood Diamond was released in 2006 to an accurate representation of the civil war, which lasted in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002. After the film there was a rebel group called the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), which are determined by the Government of Sierra Leone to overthrow. RUF claims to be fighting for the people of Sierra Leone, as they have done in reality in order to create chaos. They managed to kill thousands of their countrymen, tearing apart the country. The RUF has engaged not only recruits for this mission, they have also civilians, including children who are forced. They went from village to village killing people, raping women and burning houses. Most people in the villages were killed, but some have been kidnapped to work in diamond mines and forced to fight with the RUF. Many boys were made to do terrible things under the RUF. The boys were abducted in the rule to see their families die in front of them and were beaten and forced to kill. Since they had met at such a young age, they were easy to handle and are essentially brainwashing cold-blooded killers. This war was essentially made possible by and found the diamonds exported by the RUF in exchange for weapons and money to continue their attacks against the government. This civil war raises many ethical questions that the international community must face. » Read more: Real Life “Blood Diamond”

The Definition of Reputation Management in Broad Terms

May 6th, 2011

Reputation management will be effectively divided into three categories, which are explained here. It is obviously the reputation management of a specific company, the three different categories of construction, management, and improving a company’s reputation. Different companies have different needs in terms of reputation management and that all good plans, it will take time to get action.

People online anywhere and be warned, just buy from a reputable company where reputation management is so important. Everyone will buy more products and services of companies and organizations with a positive reputation. Companies with more than call can also be higher prices for their products and shares of companies whose positive reputation commands a higher valuation of the stock.

Reputation management is certainly not only recovery of a good reputation, it is very important to carry out its part of prevention and exhilarating as to preserve and improve the reputation, even before he ever had a clouded reason. Social activities should be closely monitored, as all parties are always steps to improve the reputation of the good to excellent, and be prepared to take immediate steps to mitigate the negative effects of damage to the reputation of the negative or derogatory comments online. » Read more: The Definition of Reputation Management in Broad Terms

Integrating Management Initiatives: Which and How?

April 19th, 2011

Often in financial forums, questions about the integration of different management tools are increased. In a recent case, tools or ABC Activity-based cost management and cost point of view of the processes, activities, tasks and resources. BSC Balanced Scorecard or a balanced view of the measurement of key indicators. Management strategy, implementation strategies, vision and mission statements. Enterprise Risk Management or ERM for risk management. This person also threw in the internal audit as “a subset of the total cost of resource management framework of the company.” Wow, what a mouthful!

My first reaction to this question was: Why not discuss the need to integrate the common sense in management? It is often not available. Dilbert cartoons were constructed, which the lack of good business sense.

Common sense aside. (Please note we can not set aside common sense!) But in this case we have to go to the analogy of a toolbox.

Job management is all the tools it needs to feed and grow a profitable business to be integrated. If it finds a need, he can add a request for a specific “named” tool against each other. Some stand-alone tools, or some should be used with others. Some tools capabilities overlap.

But ultimately, the management can and should use all the tools of his toolbox is suitable for the task. If management tools can use more smoothly and appropriately, the easier his task will be. And because business conditions are constantly changing, management must also constantly learning and improving its capacity and efficiency.

Personally, I found that most companies should better cost management and I especially recommend activity-based costs in most cases. For me, cost management that every manager (and ultimately each employee) understand how they spend health business and profitability. » Read more: Integrating Management Initiatives: Which and How?