January Newsletter, Vol 1, Issue 1
By POK Newsletter
on Jan 01, 2009 at 01:14 PM in in Newsletters
Happy New Year everyone! This year we will be focusing our Newsletters and Whitepapers around quarterly topics.
Happy New Year everyone! This year we will be focusing our Newsletters and Whitepapers around quarterly topics. Throughout first quarter we will be focusing on "Thriving not just surviving!"
Thrive Don't Just Survive
Recessions "shuffle the deck" more than boom times do. A study by Bain & Company found that twice as many companies made the leap from laggards to leaders during the last recession as during surrounding periods of economic calm.
The study found that one-fifth of companies in the bottom quartile in their industries jumped to the top quartile during the 1990-91 recession. Meanwhile, more than a fifth of all "leadership companies" (top quartile) fell to the bottom quartile.
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