Listes plus-ultra

Les listes des chroniqueurs de La Presse.

Sélection de The Economist

Quelques articles intéressants des derniers mois :

The fickle Asian container
American coal - A burning issue
A mining tax for Australia

Décisions d'investissement chez Rio Tinto

We start from the proposition that we are not strategic capital allocators; we are bottom-up capital allocators. We invest not by choosing the commodity in which to put money but by choosing the project in which to put money.

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Finally, our experience is that regular investments—as opposed to one-offs—succeed better. That’s also true of divestments. It’s the same principle as time–cost averaging.

(via McKinsey Quaterly)

Mariano Riveira

Prix des maisons en Norvège

La bulle immobilière canadienne et américaine n'est rien si on compare à ce qui se passe en Norvège.

StandOut

Provider and Advisor

Your comparative advantage: YOU'RE A ROCK.

Your broad shoulders can readily bear the weight of many different people coming to you with many different problems. And because those people sense that you genuinely care about their problems--rather than merely caring about pure competence or social influence or creative genius--they follow your guidance. The impact of your advice is vitally important to you. Did your solution or suggestion have the intended result? Did it improve people's experience, advance their agendas, or solve their issues? You need to have access to this information, so you're diligent with your follow-up, always from a sincere place of genuine care.

The greatest value you bring to the team:

Your pointed counsel and unwavering support, and the trust these build.

Provider: You sense other people's feelings and you feel compelled to recognize these feelings, give them a voice and act on them.


Advisor: You are a practical, concrete thinker who is at your most powerful when reacting to and solving other people's problems.

Design Thinking

We need more mad designers focused on customer experience and business model innovation. If you don't have design talent in your organization doing more than product and website design you are making a mistake. Whether you are interested in business model innovation or not you should be leveraging design thinking and process to improve your customer experience. It is a requirement for business model innovation. In fact, maybe we need to bang together the heads of mad scientists and mad designers.

(via Fortune)

Endettement étudiant

Un étudiant du MBA à Harvard qui a pris le taureau par les cornes pour éliminer ses dettes.

La pollution à Beijing

Une étude qui démontre que les efforts pour améliorer la qualité de l'air à Beijing pendant les jeux olympiques ont porté fruit.

MIT et Harvard Online

Ça s'en vient. (via The Atlantic)