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Other Added - Enron - The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox
2006 is quickly becoming history. Your results as a manager are evident by the achievements you have accomplished and the challenges, failure and un-met goals that were for whatever reason not realized.One of the behaviors I have been advocating for many years for managers is that they carefully and routinely evaluate the areas where they have made progress and where they have not.There are many benefits for this type of activity and yet many managers are either too busy, too stressed or just unwilling to take the time to conduct a thorough self-evaluation of their strengths, weaknesses, failures or self-development needs.I have been sharing ideas, concepts and techniques with managers around the world for years on how to improve organization performance and employee productivity and it still amazes
After their success in trading gas, they thought they could make money from anything . . . so they could afford to pay any cost of entry, because they'd learn how to make i
You have a great month and make more than you thought possible, but the next month your sales are much lower and by the third month they are almost non existent. What happened and how on earth do you survive this situation?First of all congratulations on your big sales figures. Do you know why this happened? Did you have a good marketing campaign going on at the time or maybe a lot of referrals. If you don’t know make sure you put a tracking system in place so that you do know why in the future?* Were the sales for the item?* Did you make a lot of back end sales?* Where did you advertise?* Which was your best advert?So how come your sales then dipped? Did you stop doing what you were originally doing because you were so busy fulfilling the big orders? Best to get your proces
This book is a fascinating account of the how Enron went from transporting natural gas through its pipelines to the foremost commodity (gas, electricity, metals, paper pulp, water, broadband . . . you name it -- even derivatives based on the weather) trading company on the planet to the best known example of corporate malfeasance.
First, in a business sense, Enron fell into what Dr. Jeremy J Siegel in THE FUTURE FOR INVESTORS calls the "Growth Trap." When the company believed that buying a company or other asset would give it a strategic advantage, price was no object.
In 1985 InterNorth paid $70 per share for Houston Natural Gas (HNG) when its market price was only $$46.88. That's the beginning of Enron. A short time later, it paid a hefty price to buy out two "greenmail" investors trying to take it over.
It bought the Portland General electric company to learn how how to run an electric utility and laid fiber optics networks when there was not enough demand.
After their success in trading gas, they thought they could make money from anything . . . so they could afford to pay any cost of entry, because they'd learn how to make i
Access Part I of the article by visiting my Small Business Branding Blog.Although Jane was nodding in agreement during my entire rant, I sensed she still needed more convincing to fully understand what to do after your brand is developed.Let me share some background...After going through my brand design process, we determined Jane's market position as a 'Life Coach' was much too vague and didn't speak to her true passion of helping people let go of their past in order to embrace their future.In a few short weeks of assessments, soul searching and refocusing, we repositioned her practice to emphasize her process, which serves as a conduit between the anchor of your past, and the door to your future.A
First, in a business sense, Enron fell into what Dr. Jeremy J Siegel in THE FUTURE FOR INVESTORS calls the "Growth Trap." When the company believed that buying a company or other asset would give it a strategic advantage, price was no object.
In 1985 InterNorth paid $70 per share for Houston Natural Gas (HNG) when its market price was only $$46.88. That's the beginning of Enron. A short time later, it paid a hefty price to buy out two "greenmail" investors trying to take it over.
It bought the Portland General electric company to learn how how to run an electric utility and laid fiber optics networks when there was not enough demand.
After their success in trading gas, they thought they could make money from anything . . . so they could afford to pay any cost of entry, because they'd learn how to make i
Website creation is probably the most important part of making m0ney online. Your website is your business, this is were you will generate your customers and sales. So you need to get it right in order to maximize your success and make money online. Your website will pretty much be a melting pot of all of your brainstorming, planning and analyzing. There are a few things that you want your website to accomplish.Search Engine Optimization When you begin to build your website you should follow good SEO tactics. What this does is build free targeted visitors from search engines. Search engines will crawl sites and display relevant ones to keywords searched from visitors. Your ultimate goal should be to place in the top five positions in the search engines for your keywords.Relevant Content Your website shoul
In 1985 InterNorth paid $70 per share for Houston Natural Gas (HNG) when its market price was only $$46.88. That's the beginning of Enron. A short time later, it paid a hefty price to buy out two "greenmail" investors trying to take it over.
It bought the Portland General electric company to learn how how to run an electric utility and laid fiber optics networks when there was not enough demand.
After their success in trading gas, they thought they could make money from anything . . . so they could afford to pay any cost of entry, because they'd learn how to make i
Costing is one of the most important parts of running a successful, profitable catering business. How can you best control your costs? Here are a few tips:Food CostsControlling your food costs will be one of the keys to your success. If you spend too much on your food and don't plan well enough so that you have charged enough to cover your costs and include a profit, then you're going to be in trouble. One of the best ways to control costs for your catering business is by keeping exquisite records and use a catering costing software program. A costing program can effectively track your inventory, identify shrinkage problems, track your receiving, automate your purchasing and audit your pricing. A food costing program can save you a whole lot of money in the long run.InventoryA costing program c
It bought the Portland General electric company to learn how how to run an electric utility and laid fiber optics networks when there was not enough demand.
After their success in trading gas, they thought they could make money from anything . . . so they could afford to pay any cost of entry, because they'd learn how to make i
Medical transcription is the process in which people accurately and rapidly transcribe medical reports and records that are dictated by doctors and other medical practitioners. These include medical and physical reports and records, operation reports, clinic notes, office notes and so on. Medical transcriptions are done by converting telephonic conversations into electronic text form. Medical transcription is an information technology enabled service. This type of transcription requires people who have specialized skills and can use information technology for converting voice recordings of the doctors. This information in converted into written documents that mention the patient's medical history and all the medical advice given to them.Individuals who transcribe this information are called medical transcriptionist
After their success in trading gas, they thought they could make money from anything . . . so they could afford to pay any cost of entry, because they'd learn how to make it up from future revenues.
When you're making an investment, you're putting up money now in hopes of receiving even more money in the future. Too often, investors will overpay for a stock because they believe that the company has terrific growth prospects.
Secondly, when it began trading natural gas, Enron began a "mark to market" form of accounting. That means that at the end of the day they added up their net losses and profits. This is normal for financial trading firms such as mutual funds.
However, Enron's traders were not buying and selling stocks, bonds and options that have a clearcut market value. They were arranging deals to supply gas here, electricity there . . . for years to come.
Marking these deals to market meant that cash they hoped to receive from customers over the next year or two or ten, was put down as today's profit.
Little or no cash received -- yet on the books a big profit.
And this is what investors do w
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