Archive for April, 2009

China and Arab nations simultaneously to deal with economic urgent position

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

In order to “meet the challenge, mutual benefit and win-win” as the theme of “Sino-Arab Cooperation Forum and Investment Symposium Entrepreneurs”, China and Arab countries have indicated that they should strengthen trade, investment, finance and other fields, a total of development, hand in hand to deal with the impact of financial crisis.

China is the world’s biggest evolving homeland, the Arab nations are furthermore evolving a exclusive plate. Strong influence in this, engaging a broad variety of worldwide economic urgent position, both financial and communal development at a vital stage.

Attended from 21 to 22, held in Hangzhou, the General Assembly the Secretary-General of the Arab financial integration Gyawali Ahmed said, “the worldwide economic urgent position has conveyed us new trials, the General Assembly to convene in China and Arab nations supplied a good opening to alleviate the economic urgent position to talk about the influence of the urgent position proceed hand in hand. ”

“The current global financial crisis is a major task.” CCPIT Yu Ping, vice president said that in the crisis on the economic impact of very large entities, the China-Arab of the two sides should strengthen contacts and consultations to further open up more trade products, the normal trade convenience for more measures to speed up the development of commodity trade.

It is appreciated that at present China to the Arab country’s major trade items are mechanism and electrical devices goods, garments, textiles, footwear, exhausts, journey items, etc.; trades from Arab nations mostly oil goods, chemical raw components, chemical fertilizer, perfected oil, aluminum products.

Statistics display that in the Sino-Arab Cooperation Forum was formally established in the first year – 2004, the Sino-Argentine bilateral trade amounted to 36.7 billion U.S. dollars; By 2008, this trade amounted to 132.8 billion U.S. dollars, with an mean annual development rate of 38%.

Yu Ping said that from the figures, on the one hand, that the Arab market has great potential for Chinese companies is very attractive. On the other hand, the Arab market demand of China’s wide coverage, both the need for high-end products, but also the necessities of life, Chinese products in the Arab countries to expand the potential market share fairly.

Arab representatives said that the Arab-Israeli economic relations should be diversified, with the exception of the energy sector should strengthen cooperation in trade, investment, tourism, technology, culture, education, cooperation, China’s imports from Arab countries should also be the goods from the energy, minerals, raw materials, such as expansion into other areas, such as medicine, food, olive oil, vegetables, fruits and other goods, some Arab.

“Solve the economic urgent position is not just a difficulty of which homeland to work and need the junction efforts of all, we wish that the Arab nations as a entire, from a strategic issue of outlook with China to reinforce financial, trade, buying into and heritage collaboration in diverse fields. “This is perceived from the gathering of Arab agents, entrepreneurs in the universal voice.

Yu Ping said that the Chinese government has with a number of Arab countries have signed bilateral economic, trade and technical cooperation agreements, investment protection and avoidance of double taxation agreements.

To bring ahead better circumstances for bilateral trade, China CCPIT will in addition fortify the work of accumulation of market knowledge, with the Arab enterprise community to fortify the acquaintances and knowledge exchange to empower effectual and timely transmission of knowledge to both boundaries of the enterprise, to look for market chances for their Project Butt, enterprise opportunities.

In augmentation, because the Arab quite undiversified monetary structure, frail scope for, constricted the sorts of trade overseas yield, the Chinese boundary in addition articulated its eagerness to trade with the Arab States of the administration for them to redevelopment their yield, to extend the sorts of kinds to find shoppers in China give the needed services and training.

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Mission Control: Putting Our Purpose Above Our Goals

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

At the surface level, ‘purpose’ and ‘goal’ seem to be very similar. In fact, my thesaurus tells me they’re synonyms. It might appear that we can use them interchangeably. But in parsing the definitions of these words, we discover they’re as different as night and day.

Goals are the specific objectives we strive to achieve, usually within well-defined parameters of space, time and resources. On the other hand, purpose is abstract. It’s the ‘why’ behind any thought or deed. Purpose is not about achieving an objective it is more of a way of life. Purpose is enduring, whereas goals can be created, adjusted and discarded as needed.

Going beyond mere semantics, you can see the variation between purpose and goals in what you do at work. Goals can be the targets you set regarding the recruitment, retention, development and progression of your organization’s workforce.

In contrast, purpose should be what the goals serve. You establish those targets to achieve a greater overarching aim, one that benefits the business and its shareholders.

For instance, you wouldn’t bring in 1,000 employees just for the purpose of making your workforce larger, would you? Of course not. (At least I hope not.)

On the other hand, you might set a goal of bringing in these employees to prepare your organization to support its purpose and to ensure the success of an exciting new growth opportunity.

We often get lost and confuse our goals with our purpose, both with our companies and our families. I will never forget teaching a leadership development session in a Fortune 500 company that not only involved executives – it involved the spouses or partners of the executives. As part of the session, executives received feedback from their partners.

Many executives learned that their partners felt ignored or put in ‘second place’ compared with work. When the executives were asked, ‘Why are you working so hard?’ they invariably said, ‘Because I want my family to have a great life.’ Their partners almost always replied, ‘We have more money than we will ever spend. We would just like to see you more!’

Many executives had clearly let their goal (make a lot of money) become more important than their purpose (create a great life for themselves and their families).

I bring this up because the distinction between a goal and a purpose sometimes can be lost on talent management professionals – we can get so absorbed in our own limited objectives, thinking that these are our raison d’etre.

A good friend of mine left consulting to become the executive vice president of HR for a huge corporation. He reviewed a study of the company’s employee benefits and found some benefits were costing the company millions of dollars and delivering very little that the employees actually valued.

When he suggested cutting the benefits to save the company money, he was told he was ‘confused’ by his HR staff members. They noted that cutting these benefits would mean a smaller budget for the HR department and less power for them. They had become so interested in ‘building their empires,’ they had forgotten about making a return on investment for their stockholders.

The idea that the purpose of the organization should come before the goals of any one part of the business seems to be simple enough. Yet why do many of the leaders in talent management (and to be fair, in other areas of business, as well) so often fail to get it?

The answer is rather simple: When a goal is designated, it tends to become a fixation for highly motivated people. Add to that the pressures that come with tight deadlines, struggles for finite resources and organizational turf battles, and it’s not hard to see how our own goals can absorb any of us.

The solution to this problem is equally simple, although it isn’t necessarily easy. It requires honest, perhaps even painful, introspection and reflection. Conduct a thorough analysis of your goals. Ask yourself, ‘What goals are consuming my time and energy?’ and ‘What goals are consuming the company’s resources?’ Rank your goals in terms of cost. Then look at the true purpose of your organization. Rank your goals in terms of ‘contribution to the purpose.’

If we are honest in our assessments, most of us will find some clear discrepancies between ‘cost of goal achievement’ and ‘contribution to our purpose.’

When this happens, we can step back, take a breath and realign our goals, successfully completing our ‘to do’ list with our purpose – successfully doing what really matters.

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How to Find Out What Mom Really Wants for Mothers Day

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

“Have you wondered whether you really know what your Mom would like for a Mothers Day gift? Could it be chocolates or candy? How about jewelry or clothes? If she had her say, what would she like most? Of course, you want to send her the perfect gift, but how can you know what perfect is? I have frequently thought about what my mom (and mom-in-law and grandmas) actually want, but I wasn’t able to find any reliable information on the Internet or in my other sources about this topic. So, I thought this might be a terrific question for the students in my Survey Research class to tackle last term.

It would be a win-win-win situation because my students could learn more about proper survey techniques, the moms in my extended family would be happy, and my stress level could go down knowing that I had done a good thing.

The 30 students in my undergraduate class decided to help me out by interviewing randomly selected mothers. They joined with students from 10 other American universities using the Internet. When the research was done, more than 400 US students had collected data from mom in all parts of the country. Because the survey was so brief, each student was able to interview an about 20 women. Altogether, some 8,000 mothers responded to the student’s questions survey. These women represented a wide variety of locations, ages, and SES. Since the students collected so much data, the conclusions are pretty dependable. The interviews were all conducted near local grocery stores, which ranged from corporate chains to locally-owned companies. We decided to use open-ended questions on the survey. After it was determined that the participant was indeed a mother, they were asked only what she most wanted to receive as a gift for Mothers Day. And the Envelope, Please…. A good number of the mothers did not express a desire for traditional gifts. They were thinking more generally of abstract gifts, such as spending more A19A2time with their kids or being appreciated for the everyday things that they do. Such moms would probably be happiest with gifts from the heart than actual storebought presents. The second most popular gift was flowers. If you want to let her know that you appreciate her, send Mothers Day flowers. Unfortunately, the method we used to conduct this survey did not allow for more specific results. We still don’t know if she would prefer freshly cut flowers or a plant with blossoming flowers. Next after flowers, the most popular gift was jewelry. Again, however, we did not get more specific with her answers. Obviously, there is a much larger variation in the cost of jewelry than there is for flowers, but you know her best.

If you are thinking about buying her jewelry, you can probably figure out what type she would most appreciate. Essentially, it seems that American moms want most to spend more quality time with their children. However, this is not always the most realistic or practical gift. Many times families live far apart or have conflicting schedules. If you cannot do this for your mother, chances are that she wants something to indicate that you are thinking of her. Send Mothers Day flowers to show your appreciation and let her know how special she is to you.

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

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What This Site Is About

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

You haven’t been online very long and yet you probably know that one of the easiest things in life is to write about something that you’re passionate about. Well, I’m passionate about the law. How it can help me achieve success in life, how it can help me claim my money from someone who might sue me, and a host of other related things that I will just have to start writing about.