2010 Market Outlook: Recovery to be Slow, But Steady
While speakers at this year’s VMA Market Outlook Workshop disagreed on exactly when recovery will get here, they all agreed we’re on our way.
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Construction: Residential Begins to Stabilize; Commercial to Falter
Leading up to publication of Valve Magazine’s 2010 Market Outlook cover story (mid-October), we take a look at a few of the industries that we did not have room to address in the print edition, but are available for our readers here on ValveMagazine.com.
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Vary Management Style to Meet the Needs of Different Age Groups
The theme of the 2009 Valve Industry Leadership Forum was “The Changing Workplace and the Workers Within,” and in keeping with that theme was a presentation by Marilyn Moats Kennedy, founder and managing partner of management consulting firm Career Strategies (Wilmette, IL). Ms.
The Chinese Puzzle
Western (particularly American) companies and workers have been badly hurt over the years by the steady move of manufacturing to low-wage countries, particularly China, where the Pearl River Delta in southern Guangdong province became known as the world’s factory floor.
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Ten Tips for Tightening Expenses During Tough Times
What can you do to help your company get through these most-challenging times?
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Good Riddance to 2008—and a Look Ahead
I think there’s a pretty good consensus that 2009 has to be better than 2008.
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Here’s to Fewer Worries in the Months Ahead
If you have held on to your investments over the past couple of years, either through sang froid, inertia or the paralysis of fear, there may be a little cheer this holiday season.
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How Safe Are We, Really?
The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai should serve as a reminder that we are all under threat; a threat made more real, perhaps, by the recent report of a blue-ribbon commission to Congress that a devastating terror attack using biological or nuclear weapons is likely somewhere in the world within the next five years.
Mixed Signals for Valve Industry
With all the gloom flying around it can be difficult to find anything encouraging to report, but it's there if you look for it.
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The ’08 Election Has Come and Gone…Where Do We Stand?
Barack Obama’s win over John McCain on Nov. 4 was the most lopsided victory for a presidential candidate since George H.W.
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