Destination University® Blog: Teaching Businesses & Communities How to Reinvent Themselves into Consumer Destinations » Geoff Colvin http://www.communityreinvention.com Written by Jon Schallert Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:38:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Yes, there is an Upside to this Downturn http://www.communityreinvention.com/2009/06/22/yes-there-is-an-upside-to-this-downturn/ http://www.communityreinvention.com/2009/06/22/yes-there-is-an-upside-to-this-downturn/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:56:15 +0000 Jon Schallert http://communityreinvention.com/?p=140 Geoff Colvin’s new book “The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath” is not written for the audience of small business owners to whom I usually speak.  Nevertheless, the book has key points in it about business reinvention, and business owners taking the steps to change both their behaviors and the way they lead their employees.

If you haven’t read the book yet, I suggest that you click this sentence to read this month’s Fortune Magazine and the excerpt they have taken from Colvin’s book.

Then, if you want to read some better news, click on this sentence to read Fortune’s Big Picture Index, that takes seven (7) key metrics about today’s economy and graphs them to show you that, just perhaps, the worst is behind us in this Recession.  According to the indicators of home sales, stock prices, jobs, business loans, consumer loans, household income, and CEO consumer confidence, we might be seeing better times sooner than the pessimistic experts forcast.

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