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Extreme Measures — Trading Ethics for Action?

For decades, Juan Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua — Harvard Law School graduate, adviser in the Carter White House, mild-mannered professor — advocated Puerto Rican sovereignty via traditional channels: “I achieved nothing,” he says.Then the 65-year-old grandfather created and began to host a talk-radio show on the topic so crude and foul-mouthed that even his wife won’t tune in. Using the vernacular of…

Management by ‘Storying Around’

“Management by ‘Storying Around’” David Armstrong takes a novel approach to communication. In the late ’80s, David Armstrong, COO of Armstrong International, began to worry if bigger was necessarily better.Armstrong International, Three Rivers, Mich., produces traps, pressure valves, condensate pumps, humidifiers and transfer coils, with annual sales exceeding $100 million. Armstrong’s concern about the double-edge sword of growth began a…

Gun Shy on M&A? 10 Reasons to Get Trigger-Happy

Ignore the potential of acquisitions, and you ignore a vital, strategic vehicle. In the past five years we’ve seen it all — “roll-ups” (rapid-fire industry consolidations), “poof-IPOs” (companies that merge and go public on the same day) and corporate gigamergers (bigger than the mega ones of the ’80s). Recently much of this has come to an unhappy ending. Indeed, it’s…

Don’t Buy What You Already Own

If you’re considering an acquisition to help grow your company, look for deals that offer complementary expertise, advises John M. Cook, CEO of The Profit Recovery Group, an Atlanta-based company that provides recovery audit services. When Cook purchased The Profit Recovery Group in 1991, it was making about $5 million in annual sales. That figure grew to $202.8 million in…

Building and Inspiring an Organization

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Advertisers Tune In to Net Radio

If you use radio in your marketing, try maximizing your impact with the Internet to reach “Streamies” — online “Net radio” listeners who are highly responsive to “dot-com” advertisements and buy more on the Web than Internet users who are not listening online.