7. Keep meetings short. Ideally, a meeting should be the length of a sitcom episode not a film by Martin Scorsese. Bartlebys law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at meetings is wasted. If you doubt the numbers, have a think about the last...
4. Make your priorities for the next year clear, and communicate them well. Is the company (or division) trying to launch a new product? Or to boost sales of existing products? Or to control costs? If you are not sure, then those who work for you wil...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 A managers manifesto 一位经理的宣言 Eight resolutions to adopt in 2020 2020年适用的八项计划 The start of the year is traditionally the time to make resolutions to chan...
He was happy, even at the Fed, to wear crumpled suits, live in a students' apartment block and fly coach back to New York and the family at weekends. (His salary had fallen by half when he went from the New York Fed to Washington, and even when he re...
Intriguingly, after the new deal was announced it refrained from mentioning any numerical targets. 有趣的是，新协议宣布后，其也没有提及任何数字目标。 Whether that is because it is embarrassed about having been forced into suc...
He was struck by Friedrich Hayek's observation that the only way inflation cured unemployment was by disguising cuts in real wages. This linked inflation and deception indelibly in his head. Price instability destroyed trust, not only in the dollar b...
American trade deals typically stretch to thousands of pages. 美国的贸易协定通常长达数千页。 The new phase one trade deal between America and China takes up only 86. 美国和中国新的第一阶段贸易协议仅占86页。 Wang Shou...
Delegates in Madrid drew up guidelines for environmentally sound trading principles for this putative market. 在马德里的代表们为这个假定的市场制定了无害环境的贸易原则准则。 What they did not make clear was how all this...
Meanwhile, although racism persists, the pervasive discrimination of earlier ages has waned. Witness the presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, in which his ethnicity has scarcely been mentioned. Since the Chinese-American population is six times as b...
Annual UN climate summits are never moments of unbridled optimism, 每年一度的联合国气候峰会从来不是盲目乐观的时刻， but this year's, held in Madrid and dubbed COP25, was particularly dispiriting. Its logo was a clock with its...
