Challenge Marketing In The News TODAY

Just got back from my morning bulk-media intake session and was overwhelmed by the number of Challenges In the News Today and wanted to share them right away.

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... Cites Global Challenges For Auto Makers
Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of automotive partners Renault SA and Nissan Motor Corp expressed concern that the continuing problems of big U.S. auto makers General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. – which are losing market share and suffering sizable losses in their North American operations – aren’t good for rivals. “When the big players in the market are in trouble, everybody is in trouble,” says Ghosn, “and there is no place for half measures. If you start watering down any plan, you’re doomed.”

Choose to work with someone who doesn’t challenge everything you say.
This is so important so creativity and the ability to innovate. Time spent responding to constant challenges are a drain to productivity.

Sometimes the challenge of being a person is to recognize that the task at hand should be performed later, considered from a new angle or if it’s a waste of time, ignored.
Don’t be so involved that you lose your perspective to recognize the learned experience that the path you are traveling leads to a solution for another challenge. An hour, day or week saved is resources we can use as we choose.

The Challenge Before Us
For those of us that ‘Rise To The Challenge’, there is always one or more challenges before us. The key is to focus on the challenge before you in this moment. We can all think about multiple challenges; however, multi-tasking is not a form of focused attention to the challenge before us.

Tom Freston Takes Over As Chief of the New Viacom As Media Challenges Mount
This is a Big Challenge Job, to take over when you know there are mounting challenges. As Chief, you’re the leader. He faces some immediate problems, such as turning around Paramount and taking in the reins at a time of great upheaval in the media industry. The Internet has opened up a new world of distribution possibilities that is forcing the major media companies to rethink how they sell their content.

Dance classes, for instance, combine exercise with social interaction and mental challenge.
Dance promotes fitness and wellness of your body, your mind and your emotions. The challenge is to flow and accentuate your movements to enhance the exercise and delivery of precision-based implementation.

Today, we look to our past, not as reason for pride, but as a source of inspiration for the challenges of the future.
I would have said, “Today, we are proud of our past, which inspires us to meet and exceed future challenges with experienced-based solutions.”

After Losses in Lipitor Case, Shares Could Slide Again On More Legal Challenges
In the Boy Scouts, I learned from Eagle Scouts doing their Eagle Projects, that it’s not done, until it’s done. If it isn’t over, the challenge continues. When there are no more legal challenges, we can get on with the paperwork.

“It’s time for me to move on to other challenges.”
Carl Ichan says parts of Time Warner are worth more separately than combined, a view echoed by Steve Case.

This summer its (eBay) biggest challengers – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – acquired or launced technology allowing their users to call each other online.
In the Fortune – October 3, 2005 issue, there is an article titled, “eBay and Skype: The Net’s New Odd Couple”. Making the two businesses work well together is sure to be a challenge, even for a management star like (Meg) Whitman.

“There’s a challenge for any state like Maine with issues such as the loss of talented people to other markets, the effects of globalization on natural-resources-based industries and competition for industries such as call centers, all which can be affected dramatically by the ability of people to use technology” – Tony Buxton, an energy lawyer.