By placing design in a central place in our understanding of the world around us, and in defining nature and society as sets of interrelated flow systems, Bejan has created (or recognized) a new job description: the flow worker.
FORBES: The Constructal Sessions, Part II: Freedom and Design
The recession has helped to stem the flow of job-seekers across America's southern border.
If your day job is the means to cash flow for your business, then the advantage of being able to stop at good enough is very clear: you save your energy for your side business, but you still do enough on the job to maintain it.
FORBES: Let Go Of Perfectionism: Balancing A Job and A Side Business, Part 2
Sourcing good deal flow is a full time job for those in the investment community, so how is someone with a day job supposed to source great deals if they cannot spend their waking hours building relationships with intermediaries and companies?
The primary difference between bitumen and ordinary crude is the size of the hydrocarbon molecules: in liquid oil, these molecules contain between five and twenty carbon atoms, while in bitumen they contain more than twenty. (At room temperature, pure bitumen is so viscous that it will not flow.) The main job of the upgrader is to break down the oversized hydrocarbons into smaller units.
In the process, we learn how we too can radically transform the way work is managed so as to get the extraordinary benefits that flow from continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight.
My pal The Pragmatic Capitalist has done an excellent job on his site of documenting the weekly flow of sellers versus buyers, and as you can plainly see, insiders are simply not showing up and purchasing shares of their own companies.
FORBES: Insider Buying/Selling: The Collected Wisdom Of A Thousand Heartbreaks
In an era when conservatives and liberals often lambast bureaucrats as the prime example of inefficient and useless workers, it would be worth looking back at an era when a steady and predictable flow of funding allowed government leaders to do their job well, focusing on the long-term problems, not each short term political crisis.
Without it, the energy boom will flow out of our leaky grid like oil from a bad cement-job.
FORBES: Fiscal Cliff? What We Really Need Is Another Stimulus
California ranks as the third worst state in the country in terms of job migration with a net outflow of jobs that is one percentage point greater than the flow of jobs into the state.
FORBES: Broken California: Wasting Money and Hurting Business
It has a strong flow of new products coming to market in 2013, and it has done a good job keeping a lid on profit-sapping incentives.
Since many households use credit cards to manage monthly cash flow for necessities like groceries and gas, "pulling credit at a time when job losses are increasing by over 50% year-on-year in most key states is a dangerous and unprecedented combination, " Whitney wrote in a research note.
The Activities template creation capability in IBM Connections, what we use on the IBM intranet, makes it possible for people in different job roles or with differing reporting requirements to create their own custom version fairly simply, and in the flow of how they work, very much like a record button.
At the same time, this exercise in credit allocation (the housing market is getting some help here, too) is depriving small and medium-size businesses of a reliable flow of credit, which, in turn, is having increasingly destructive results on growth, innovation and job creation.
FORBES: Steve Forbes: Why Most Government Leaders Are Sinking The Global Economy
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