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• National, Communal, and Economic Clusters for Top Stock Picks (Part 1) - Editor, 20 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Not everyone cares for marketing, but it is behind many top stocks. We are all customers and equate marketing with common sense. Segmentation is one of the disciplines, which sets marketing professionals apart. Age, sex, wealth, and tongue are common ways of dividing a market. There is no money to be made from such easy exercises. Inspiration and hard work can, however, produce winning clusters. This article follows our earlier piece entitled “Customer Benefits versus Profits for Financial Planning Service Providers”. We want to take the marketing and stock value idea further.

• National, Communal, and Economic Clusters for Top Stock Picks (Part 2) - Editor, 20 February 2008 - No Comments yet

National, Communal, and Economic Clusters for Top Stock Picks (Part 1)

The Local Global Equation of Top Stocks

Did you know that Pepsi has crab-flavored chips in Russia, and snacks with red-hot peppers in India? The Berlin media finds a Hindi film star who endorses Nokia in India, ‘sexier than the Pope’. Can you imagine that as a line to sell hand sets in Italy or Latin America? Anglo-Saxons may own most of the world’s top stocks, but you have to vibe with Sheikhs, Muslims, ethnic Chinese, and whoever else is a customer somewhere! Diversity in corporations in not just a social responsibility thing: it simply makes good business sense!

• Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 1) - Editor, 19 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Why should you care? Stock price should be proportional to earnings. You buy or hold stocks if business prospects appear bright. The latter could be something stock brokers and the media tell you: you may also be the clever type who goes against the general trend. However, what could this have to do with Impression Management?

• Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 2) - Editor, 19 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 1)

Track Records of Stock Analysts and Investment Advisors

What if you find business a bore? Does the stock market have space for folks who want superior returns on investments without spending all day on company and economic news? The trick lies in finding reliable advisers. Here is a test: go the archives section of your favorite web site, and find out what stock analysts said this time last year. Greenspan’s present clients made billions from sub prime because they knew about the gathering storm when this consultant of today was still Chair Person of the Federal Reserve. Federal Impression Management did not work with community banks however. They stayed away from sub prime, and have excellent business results for 2007 to show.

• Process Not Personality Builds Durable Stock Value (Part 1) - Editor, 18 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Top stock picks cannot rely on personalities. Ford, Watson, and Suzuki, are iconic names of the business world, but the organization structures and power transition conventions of Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Shell, protect stock investment interests best. People who have owned stocks of Apple or Yahoo may rejoice at the returns of founders to stabilize floundering ships, but the orderly succession at Microsoft must account for an achievement that even European detractors would not criticize. The best leaders plan for their own redundancies, and like Caesar never allow peaks of triumph to let them forget that empires must try and survive individuals.

• Process Not Personality Builds Durable Stock Value (Part 2) - Editor, 18 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Process Not Personality Builds Durable Stock Value (Part 1)

Reading Between Stock News Lines

Stock information is a minefield! Executives provide news of significant external developments, but how can the stock market know about what happens in the engine rooms of corporations? We have compiled the following list of signs that a company is process driven. You are welcome to challenge our notions, and add concepts of organization from your own business experiences.

• What the Making of a Singapore Girl Can Tell the Stock Market (Part 1) - Editor, 17 February 2008 - No Comments yet

American Apparel has an iconic founder, but Singapore Airlines has an unending stream of polite and caring cabin crew. It is remarkable how close the real experience of travel by this airline can be to the dreamy advertisements of smiling and slim women! The Singapore Girl has remained youthful and up-to-date for over two decades. Have you ever met people unhappy with the service on flights of this airline? It cannot be merely an Asian hospitality gig because India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines all have airlines. Most western airlines have Asian staff on flights to and from the Orient. How does Singapore Airlines stand apart by such a wide service margin?

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