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1		Akcees aduce oportunităţile mai aproape de tineri Sâmbătă, 25 februarie, Akcees organizează evenimentul de lansare al organizaţiei, eveniment în cadrul căruia oameni de afaceri şi antreprenori consacraţi vor discuta despre perspectivele de carieră existente pentru tinerii din România. Akcees a luat naştere pe 11 noiembrie 2011 ca urmare a dorinţei membrilor săi fondatori, Şerban Mogoş şi Irina Scarlat, de a contribui la dezvoltarea profesională a tinerilor, atât prin promovarea şi susţinerea activităţilor antreprenoriale, cât şi prin facilitarea integrării pe piaţa muncii a tinerilor studenţi şi proaspăt absolvenţi. În doar câteva luni de existenţă, Akcees a crescut de la două persoane ce împărtăşeau un ideal, la o echipă tânără şi dinamică, echipă care crede cu pasiune în misiunea, viziunea şi valorile organizaţiei şi care deţine experienţa necesară pentru a duce la bun sfârşit obiectivele asumate. Prin proiectele şi evenimentele pe care le va organiza în 2012, Akcees se va distinge în peisajul non-guvernamental românesc drept o organizaţie puternică, al cărei profesionalism şi proactivitate vor genera performanţe deosebite în viitor.
2		Top 10 Ways You Know You’re An Entrepreneur Are you an entrepreneur? You might be. Inside you there just might be an entrepreneur waiting to tear out. Here are the top 10 ways to know if you’re an entrepreneur. (And for those of you that are already entrepreneurs, you can nod your head as we go along…Or disagree with me! Or add your own points!) 1. You’re passionate. Passion counts for a whole lot when it comes to being an entrepreneur. Without it, you’re dead before you even start. 2. You’re always looking for opportunities. Entrepreneurs are opportunity-seekers. Everything is an opportunity. Failures are even an opportunity. 3. You always think to yourself, “I can do that better.” You might know nothing about the retail business, but every time you walk into a big box store you have a thousand ideas on how to make it a better experience. Combined with your eye for opportunity, you can’t help but believe there’s a better way of doing things. 4. You want to live your work. Work isn’t a means to an end. It isn’t a way of collecting a paycheck and going home. You’re dreaming of something more than that, where you can live and breathe work. Not because you want to work more, you want to work smarter. You want your work to mean something. You want to experience something more than shuffling to the office at 8am, leaving at 5pm and forgetting what happened for that day..
3		Ready? Go! How to Prepare to Launch Your Start-up Preparing to launch your start-up means more than simply making sure you have a viable product and potential customers. Here are five tips on how to prepare yourself to be a founder. John Bradberry was fascinated by the idea of how someone may prepare to start a company. Bradberry, himself an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has worked for two decades as a consultant to small business owners, and he found himself attracted to the story of one of his clients, Decision One Mortgage founder JC Faulkner. “I wanted to understand why it worked so well, how did he bring the pieces of the puzzle together, and how does that apply to start-ups of other types,” Bradberry says. For answers, he went first to academic research on the subject, and then thought back on his own experience as an entrepreneur. “One of the concepts that crystallized for me was readiness,” Bradberry says..
4		Business Club recomanda Rolland Berger Case Study: Pentru mai multe detalii despre competiţia Rolland Berger accesează site-ul http://challenge.rolandberger.ro/.
5		Un exemplu de mindset corespunzător: Against the Odds: A Bank Start-up Kate Kelly launched Minnesota Bank & Trust amidst the 2008 market crisis. She says she’s ready to take it through another. “Here we go again,” Kate Kelly, chief of three-year-old Minnesota Bank & Trust, thought as she saw the market plummeting in early August. An early riser who gets into her Edina, Minnesota, office by 6:30 a.m., Kelly immediately called her customer relationship manager and told him to do a round of client and prospect calls. Next she called her mortgage head, and told her to remind clients that no matter what the stock market was doing, rates were low for long-term mortgages, and they should take advantage of the opportunity. “I’m not going to get all flustered,” says Kelly. “I am going to keep clients focused on what they can control versus what they can’t.” Kelly’s hands-on approach to client management differentiates Minnesota Bank & Trust from other banks focused on mid-size companies. Kelly knows most of the bank’s clients, and co-manages their relationships. As a result, with her staff of 17—most with whom she has worked for twenty years—Kelly has built a stable of 118 business clients and 202 private banking clients in three years. And though the bank’s loan and deposit growth is slower than originally planned—currently at $73 million in assets, less than half where she thought she’d be now—Kelly is committed to deepening relationships with clients and prospects and says she expects strong customer connections will keep the bank going in yet another market downturn.
6		Must read it! Articol despre un subiect de actualitate: The 2011 oil shock More of a threat to the world economy than investors seem to think THE price of oil has had an unnerving ability to blow up the world economy, and the Middle East has often provided the spark. The Arab oil embargo of 1973, the Iranian revolution in 1978-79 and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 are all painful reminders of how the region’s combustible mix of geopolitics and geology can wreak havoc. With protests cascading across Arabia, is the world in for another oil shock? There are good reasons to worry. The Middle East and north Africa produce more than one-third of the world’s oil. Libya’s turmoil shows that a revolution can quickly disrupt oil supply. Even while Muammar Qaddafi hangs on with delusional determination and Western countries debate whether to enforce a no-fly zone (see article), Libya’s oil output has halved, as foreign workers flee and the country fragments..
7		How to Stay at No. 1 Niklas Hed is a little intimidated by his own success. Niklas Hed is co-founder of Rovio Mobile, the Finnish company behind the hit smartphone app Angry Birds. The game, released in December 2009, has been downloaded more than 200 million times. In May of last year, Angry Birds finally became the best-selling app in the United States. Slash from Guns N' Roseslater tweeted, "Angry Birds is like a drug, only cheaper." I listened to their music a lot as a kid, so I thought, If he says that, now I actually believe it. I was very positive that the game was able to do what it did, but I was nervous and felt we needed to keep this going and not lose the pace. I've become paranoid in a way. How do we keep it fresh? What is the next move? How do we stay No. 1? I feel like we are walking, and we should be running. Every day, I'm thinking, Where are our weaknesses? One by one, we are taking steps to tackle those. And those steps, I would like to take faster. The appetite is growing as we are moving forward.
8		The true experience? A Guide to What Happens When Greece Defaults By Constantine von Hoffman \| September 13, 2011 • inShare4What scares everyone about a possible Greek debt default is that it would cause a lot of other institutions — even other nations — to join Greece in default. Remember 2008 when AIG hit the fan? It’s like that, only much, much, much bigger. How likely is this to happen? The Magic 8 Ball and the markets say: Very. On Monday, Greek 1-year bonds were trading at 111 percent. Germany has already announced it is putting up as many financial moats and dikes as it can. The nations and institutions holding the most Greek debt are: 1. Greek banks: $62.5 billion 2. European Central Bank: $40 billion 3. Germany: $22.6 billion 4. France: $14.96 billion 5. UK: $3.4 billion 6. Italy: $2.35 billion Fed chief Ben Bernanke said...
9		How 9/11 Made Me a Better Entrepreneur I was at the World Trade Center when it fell. I was working on Wall St. at the time. When I got out of the subway station I saw papers flying everywhere. I had recently moved from L.A. to New York and I figured it was a parade. I walked to my office. On my way, I heard the second plane hit. I don’t know what I thought. I just kept walking. In my office, many people were working like it was a normal day. CNN was on. That was the only difference. Someone called our office and told us that a plane hit the World Trade Center and people were jumping out of the building. I walked outside to see what was going on. Crowds of people were walking toward the World Trade Center. I followed. We all wanted to see people jumping. It’s an unbelievable thing to hear — that people are jumping out of a very tall building. Everyone was talking about it. I stood in a crowd of people and watched.
10		Nine Things Successful People Do Differently Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer — that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others — is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fact, decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do..
11		Because an entrepreneur must have excellent sales skills. 9 Strategies for Selling Smarter Sales professionals often believe that they can increase sales by stuffing their pipeline. However, having more prospects usually doesn’t result in proportionately more sales, because you end up trying to develop too many accounts at once. Rather trying to sell to MORE customers, use these 9 strategies to make sure you’re selling to the RIGHT customers, and to make those sales happen more quickly: • #1. Increase the percentage of time you spend selling. The idea is to spend less time doing paperwork and more time meeting with customers. Get somebody else to handle your CRM data entry or expense report preparations. Buy (and learn to use) smartphone apps that will help you optimize travel times. Use web conferencing to include stakeholders in meeting, thus making it unnecessary for you to meet with them privately. Try to find something every week that will make you more efficient..
12		A true entrepreneur must have multple skills. Why ‘Get Good at One Thing’ Is Bad Advice Pretend someone asks, “What do you do?” How would you answer? You might say, “I own a restaurant.” Or, “I’m a supervisor at Acme Industries.” Or, “I’m a lawyer.” Whatever you say, I bet your answer won’t include the word “and.” But it should, regardless of the stigma often associated with being an “and.” Take me. I ghostwrite books. I photograph weddings..
13		What’s your opinion? Hundred years' war? WILL it be a century before female managers in Britain earn the same as men? That is the claim today from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). It has released the results of a survey, which shows that male executives earn, on average, over £10,500 more than their female counterparts for doing the same job—£42,441 compared with £31,895. Women’s salaries may be rising faster than men’s (2.4% in 2010 compared with 0.3%) but even so, says CMI, at those rates it will take 98 years for women to catch up—thus giving the headline-writer an irresistible angle. In truth, this figure does not pretend to take into account factors that will change over the next hundred years, such as culture, legislation and demography. Nor, seemingly, does it extrapolate from historical trends. Nevertheless, it contains some thought-provoking insights. Most intriguingly, the survey found that among junior executives there does in fact seem to be pay parity: indeed, the average pay for female managers at the bottom of the ladder, £21,969, is slightly more than the £21,367 average for males (research published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in 2008 also came to a similar conclusion)..
14		Useful for future business leaders, like you guys. Closing the Human Potential Gap Only a third of workers feel fully engaged in their work. Leaders must rethink how they motivate and reward employees and tap into their passions The key elements to driving long-term sustainability in today's economy are innovation and productivity, both of which can be generated only through employees who are sufficiently motivated to contribute their best. Yet research by Gallup shows that just 33 percent of employees feel fully engaged in their work. Since engaged employees are motivated employees, these data reveal that the U.S. economy is, in part, suffering because the bulk of the nation's employees are either not engaged or are actively disengaged. Of these, 25 million workers (18 percent) are actively disengaged, which Gallup estimates cost the U.S. $416 billion in lost productivity last year alone. The country is capitalizing on the potential of only a third of all U.S. workers. That creates a staggering human potential gap of nearly 70 percent..
15		Vezi aici prezentarea proiectelor Business Club din 2011 la emisiunea Antreprenor- Money Channel.
16		Building excitement. Can China avoid a bubble? THE property market illustrates the growing divergence between rich-world and emerging economies. In most developed countries (with a few exceptions, such as Australia and Canada) governments are trying to breathe life into property. In developing ones they are trying to cool things down. In the West the question is when prices will stop falling. In the East it is whether they will stop rising. For many institutional investors, emerging markets, however buoyant, are not worth taking big bets on. Thanks to the bust, the rich world offers high-quality properties in liquid markets at lowish prices. The developing countries are a riskier development prospect, with new homes, offices and malls being built at speed to cope with fast-rising demand..
17		Nouă lucruri extraordinare pe care nu le știai despre Google În spatele gigantului american din industria IT s-au construit o serie de mituri. Multe sunt pure invenții, însă sâmburele de adevăr îl puteți găsi în cele zece puncte descrise în acest articol. 9. Fratele lui Larry Page, Carl, a ajutat la dezvoltarea eGroups, o companie .com din anii `90 care a fost achiziționată pentru jumătate de miliard de dolari în 2000 de Yahoo!. 8. Inițial numele Google a fost Backrub (scărpinare pe spate). L-au numit astfel deoarece algoritmul pe care îl folosea ordona paginile în funcție de câte „back link-uri“ avea o pagină. 7. Genealogia brevetului Google este și ea interesantă. Ea este în strânsă legătură cu un brevet deținut de Dow Jones, foarte asemănător cu cel al Google, dezvoltat de Robin Li, pe când acesta lucra pentru o companie controlată de Dow Jones..