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- Financial firewall could tame mammoth banks
When banks get too big to fail, it's time to break them up, writes Nouriel Roubini. "The problem of banks being too big to fail is even bigger now than it was before the crisis," he notes. "The true solution to the too-big-to-fail problem requires ... radical choices." For starters, he suggests, governments should erect a financial firewall between commercial and investment banking groups, so that risk-taking institutions can be allowed to go under without threatening deposit-taking banks. Forbes
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- Fast-food giant aims for cultural overhaul
Yum! Brands, owner of fast-food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is planning the "biggest culture-change initiative in the world today," says CEO Dave Novak. The company hopes to train all 1.4 million of its employees in the precepts of management expert John O'Keeffe, a former Procter & Gamble executive, in a bid to create a culture of innovation and cross-pollination between its global divisions. The Economist
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- How Steve Jobs turned corporate America upside down
Steve Jobs, Apple's mercurial CEO, came back from career oblivion -- and survived two brushes with death -- to turn the business world on its head, writes Adam Lashinsky. Jobs has transformed the music, mobile-phone and movie businesses, while continuing to push the limits of his original industry, computing. CNNMoney.com/Fortune
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- Your biggest business battle is with yourself
Business leaders are faced with a constant stream of internal battles, writes Terry Starbucker -- and they have to win every single time if they're going to reach their true potential. It's by overcoming our own private doubts and weaknesses that we can lead others to greatness, he writes. TerryStarbucker.com
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- Spending big bucks can stifle brainwaves
Pledging to spend large amounts of money on innovation efforts can actually make it harder for companies to achieve their goals, writes Scott Anthony. Spending heavily discourages risk-taking, leads people to focus on new technology rather than new business models and can commit a company to a strategy that may not pan out. "If you are truly committed to innovation ... spend less money and more time," Anthony suggests. "You'll end up making substantially more progress." HarvardBusiness.org/Innovation Insights blog
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- "Nimby Wars: The Politics of Land Use," by P. Michael Saint, Robert J. Flavell and Patrick F. Fox
When companies clash over land-use issues, they call in Michael Saint, an expert in the zoning battles that firms engage in to keep competitors off their turf. Saint and two of his employees have written a book that offers, "what amounts to an introductory promotional handbook to the dark arts of land use politics," writes Jonathan Birchall. Disappointingly, the authors don't go into much detail about the specific shenanigans in which they've been involved, Birchall writes. Financial Times (tiered subscription model)
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- Man turns up alive at his own funeral
A Brazilian bricklayer stunned friends and family by wandering into his own funeral. The man had been on an all-night drinking spree when relatives mistakenly identified the body of a disfigured car-crash victim as belonging to him. "An aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral," said the man's niece. CBS News/The Associated Press
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