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Mangel på dygtige ledere i fremtiden

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Børsen skriver:

Virksomheder jagter ledere, men der er mangel på kvalificerede emner. Ledernes Hovedorganisation foreslår green card-ordning for udlændinge til nøglefunktioner.

Det går så godt for dansk erhvervsliv, at mange virksomheder jagter nye lederemner. Hver femte virksomhed venter at skulle ansætte flere i årets sidste seks måneder, viser en undersøgelse fra Ledernes Hovedorganisation.

– Vi risikerer at stå over for en enorm mangel på dygtige ledere de kommende år. Regeringen går efter at gøre Danmark til verdens mest konkurrencedygtige samfund i 2015. Men skal det lykkes, skal alle gode kræfter sættes ind på, at der er nok talenter at rekruttere kommende ledere fra, siger Svend Askær. Han foreslår, at der satses på udlændinge i nøglefunktioner via en green card-ordning. Samtidig bør flere kvinder og nydanskere ind i lederfunktioner.

Boersen on Line

Kommentar: Men virksomheds drift ligner efter min mening fodbold – forstået på den måde at det drejer sig ikke så meget om at rekruterer tallenter som at avle tallenter. Vi skal starte fra bunden. Udvikle dygtige medarbejder der kan blive dygtige ‘supervisors’ der igen bliver dygtige mellemledere osv. Det kræver en langsigted indsats – så det gælder om at få begyndt snart!

Starbucks gets bookish

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Starbucks gets bookishIf Barnes & Noble can sell coffee, it stands to reason Starbucks can sell books. And that’s just what chairman Howard Schultz aims to do by the end of the year. While short on details, he said the work of popular authors would be featured, in much the same way the company has been selling selected CDs. Add a plan to make proprietary content downloadable to customers through the in-store WiFi network, and you’ve got even more reasons to go to Starbucks. Fast Company wonders if Schultz will now anoint bestsellers, as Oprah does.

BOSTON GLOBE

Table Service — In Your Kitchen

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Bridging the gap between personal chef and home cooking, a growing number of high-end restaurants and chefs are offering custom-meal delivery. Six-month-old Solar Harvest in Beverly Hills, which sends meals to Mr. Bronson, charges about $150 a week for five days of meals, including bison burgers on Napa cabbage. In March, Daniele Baliani, most recently executive chef at Boston’s Pignoli, launched My Befana in New York. The prepared-foods shop offers delivery of a snack and three meals, like braised short-rib stew bourguignon, for $40 a day.

Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

Put Better Beer in Your Belly

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The making of beer has changed dramatically over the centuries — particularly during the last one. The beverage has shifted from a rich, locally produced staple to a blanched, sanitized drink. But in recent years, the pendulum has swung back again, and flavorful brews are widely available; you just need to know how to choose them. And we don’t mean simply picking up a six-pack of snazzy-looking “microbrewed” or imported beer. (See Forbes’ refreshing Coolest Beers slide show.

Wired Magazine

Indian Pret a Manger?

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British Tiffinbites is a chain of Indian food outlets, which might well be the first real Indian fast food brand.

The company gets its name from the classic stacked metal boxes that are used to carry home-cooked Indian lunches. Tiffinbites has replaced tin with plastic, but aims to keep the traditional, home-cooked quality. Food is centrally prepared in North-London, using fresh ingredients and with a much lower fat and oil content than regular Indian take-outs.

Tiffinbites offers seated dining, but their neatly packed and stacked boxes are also practical for office workers, who can heat them in office microwaves. Tiffinbites currently has three outlets in London, all of which are attractively designed.

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Tiffinbites

mix your own flavors of ice cream in less than a minute

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Moobella is part of the whole web 2.0 craze hitting the net like crack in the 80’s but the only difference is that Moobella is not on the web, it’s a vending machine. Based out of Massachusetts, Moobella has made new technology in there vending machines that allows you to mix your own flavors of ice cream in less than a minute. The machine itself has a touch screen display that shows an assortment of flavors and mix ins available at that time. When a flavor runs out its taken down off the menu and the onboard computer sends a message to Moobella’s headquarters telling them that machine needs to be re-stocked with that particular flavor. The machine also sends sales data back to the headquarters wirelessly.

Moobella

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