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Entries by Ron Ashkenas from 04/2010

Does Tax Time Need To Be So Taxing?

| Posted 04.07.2010 | Business
Read More: Taxes, Ron Wyden, Senator Ron Wyden, Irs, Douglas Shulman, Douglas-Shulman, Tax, Judd Gregg, Taxpayer Money, Bipartisan, Taxpayers, Barack Obama, Business News

If there's one thing that unites politicians and the general public it's the belief that the U.S. tax system is too darn complicated. Yet somehow the process of paying taxes has resisted almost every attempt at simplification.

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Rapid Disruption's Next Victim: The Airline Industry

| Posted 04.14.2010 | Technology
Read More: Video-Teleconferencing, Cisco, AT&T, Dispruptive Technology, Web Conferencing, Airline Industry, Technology News

One of the next candidates for rapid disruption is the airline industry.

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Do You Have the Postrecession Blues?

| Posted 04.21.2010 | Business
Read More: Cisco, Strategy, ConAgra Foods, John Chambers, Thought Leaders, Recession, Personal Effectiveness, Business News

Now that the "official" recession, as measured by government statistics, is ending, it may be a good time to ask whether your "psychological" recession has ended as well.

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Who's Responsible for Your Company's Reputation?

| Posted 04.29.2010 | Business
Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Toyota, Ethics, Crisis Management, Reputation, Security and Exchange Commission, Public Relations, Business News

A number of years ago some enterprising deal makers at GE Capital proposed a series of transactions that would provide financing for a chain of funera...

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