Navigating the new normal

Navigating the new normal
Business Standard
The economy will push brands into opening up more entry points for extremely cost-sensitive consumers as the new normal becomes a prolonged normal in the developed world. At the same time, tough times will generate an unprecedented entrepreneurialism ...

Business Standard

Campbell: Searching for 'new normal'
Greenville Daily Reflector
As we entered the second decade of the 21st century we were looking for a new normal, trying to adjust to life after the financial bubble burst. We end 2011 still searching. Next year we expect a nasty election cycle but hope someone will emerge who ...

The Culture Shift of 2011, and What It Means for Business (Part 2 of 2)
Triple Pundit
By Presidio Marketing | December 25th, 2011 0 Comments By Griff Foxley In part 1 of this post, I explored some of the forces at play today that are creating a “new normal” in the business world. Given this rising activist market, given the realities of ...

Triple Pundit

Hoping Employment Takes Off…
Wall Street Pit
Things are looking better, and the green shoots might just be real this time around, but we are still a long, long way from returning to whatever our new normal might be. It doesn't have to be this way. Although recessions that are caused by financial ...

Ho, Ho, Ho: It's a Sunday Christmas
Sumter Item
30, 2011: So again, what is this "New Normal," and how will we know it? I have no idea, but here's the start of a list of we'll call: "The Most Annoying and Overused New Normal Expressions On the Planet." Feel free to contribute. At the end of the day; ...

Arts scene finds bright spots in financial gloom
Access Atlanta
It made some in the industry wonder if this last-ditch fundraising model had become the new normal. But if the metro area's arts groups have learned anything this year, it's that they'll have to make fundamental changes in the coming years if they're ...

no business like 'recession-proof' show business
Economic Times
They forked out anywhere between 150 and 350 - the new normal price for a comfortable seat in the dark halls. Forty-plus heroes could resurrect their careers, a new kid confirmed his 'rock star' status, silly and risky themes proved bankable and the ...

Editor's Note: In 2011, we learned there are no quick fixes
Washington Post
Caution and lower expectations are the new normal. Plenty of business leaders I talk to acknowledge as much. It's better than the alternative — another dip into recession. One way or another, we need to bring ourselves back into financial balance. ...

Holidays can be a time of pain for some
Houston Chronicle
But, that empty chair is there, so we need to adjust to the new environment created by his loss - create a new normal. I realized it was important that we give ourselves permission to do what is most comfortable, whether it be new or old traditions. ...

Letter, 12/25: Uncharted waters ahead
Lincoln Journal Star
But in a structural change, a new normal is created. The end of the Cold War unleashed millions of workers into a surplus world labor pool. Technology, by its nature, increases production with fewer workers. The US economy is producing more today than ...

2011 – the year the policymakers misread everything about the economy
The Guardian (blog)
So that was 2011, a year in which it became evident that rapid recoveries from economic crises was the "old normal" and talk of a lost decade had become the "new normal". Unemployment is heading towards three million and on current trends it will be ...

The Guardian (blog)

Bubil: Serving up a mixed bag of real estate stats
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The "new normal"? We have been kicking around those terms for years, and the "bottom" continues to be as hard to define as it is to reach. But locally, we are seeing an uptick in prices. Any improvement is welcome, and certainly there is plenty of ...

FACES of 2011: Kasey Crute
Richmond Times Dispatch
She is having a hard time getting used to how different life is, and she refers to it as "the new normal." Even the holidays are "different," she concedes. But when she and Crute look back on 2011, they are thankful for the friends, family members and ...

KEEPING THEIR MEMORY ALIVE: How to cope with loss during the holidays
Grand Forks Herald
“Holidays cause us to think about how to adjust to this 'new normal.'” Persons experiencing grief have a loss of energy, are more tearful and have difficulty with concentration, she said. “They may not want to decorate or do normal things to prepare ...

Community rallies around family in need
The Coloradoan
Jade, a former special education teacher, said the family will adjust to its new normal. The Loughlins are a tight-knit bunch, going everywhere together. That isn't going to change he said, no matter what happens. "We're going to be realistic about ...

Stacking up temporary jobs has become a long-term situation for many workers
Pioneer Press
For workers who have been laid off and are trying to transition to a completely new career, a part-time way in is the new normal. "Oftentimes it's hard to find a full-time job in a new sector, so people are getting a part-time job in that sector," said ...

LME Live » “If you were arrested for being a leader, would there be ...
By william hayden jr.
Constant turbulence seems to be the new normal, and effective leadership is crucial in containing it. Real leaders, wrote the novelist David Foster Wallace, are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and ...
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Ohio Beef Schools examine 'new normal' cattle marketing, economy ...
The place to find the most current and breaking news and market reports for the beef and cattle industry.
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Making the heroic raids the new normal-What do you guys think of ...
Blizz going to go wrath era difficulty in MOP- meaning Heroics are going to nerfed to cata level normals first tier. So, why not then separate the heroic difficulty ...
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Rowman.com: 9781442203662 - Surviving After Cancer: Living the ...
With so many people surviving cancer and living 'the new normal,' guiding survivors and their families through the phases of recovery has become an imperative ...
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The Conference Board Review | The New Normal
FALL 2011. THE NEW NORMAL. Innovation & Productivity. Acceptable Loss. Why long-term thinking may lead to unnecessarily large failures. By Paul B. Brown ...
www.tcbreview.com/fall_2011/.../the_new_normal.aspx

Several States' Residents Show Their Financial Savvy
Workforce Management
By Patty Kujawa With more baby boomers retiring by the month and triple-digit gains and losses in the market becoming the new normal, knowing about finances and how they work has become increasingly important to setting up retirement funds. ...

Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition
Gainesville Sun
Constant turbulence seems to be the new normal, and effective leadership is crucial in containing it. Real leaders, wrote the novelist David Foster Wallace, are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness ...

Wounded soldier grateful for life
Morning Sentinel
His work there became his new normal, he said. And he wants to go back even though he knows the risks. The day his armored truck struck a roadside bomb and flipped over, he was on a mission that had worried him and others earlier in the day. ...

Morning Sentinel

2012: The Dust Blows Forward
Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
They're all digital nowadays. It's an SLR. A compact camera. A rangefinder. Not a digital SLR, or a digital compact camera, or a digital rangefinder. Everything is digital. Digital is the new normal. It's the other things that are novelties.

Coma patient woke up just before being taken off life support
DigitalJournal.com
Traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event type of wound, and for those individuals and their families it often takes getting used to "the new normal." While technology has come so far in recent decades, there is much still unknown about the human ...

DigitalJournal.com

No Christmas Truce in the Political Wars
The Weekly Standard (blog)
In 2011, the economy seemed to have found what has come to be called “the new normal”—growth, but too slow to revive the job market. After threatening to take another dip in the recession pool, the economy settled down to a 2 percent growth rate. ...

Market Watch
Barron's
Active portfolio management is the new normal, and it will also play a critical role in the successes we hope to achieve in 2012. by Euro Pacific Capital Research December: Commodity prices can be very volatile, often more so than just about any other ...

Four More Years of Gridlock?
Daily Beast
If what we're seeing is the new normal, fine, as long as the excesses of partisanship give way at some point to the needs of the citizenry, a premise that House Republicans are currently testing. We've seen these battles occur with equal intensity ...

Daily Beast

Advance Directives Help Decision Making
The Ledger
“Sometimes the caregivers aren't even aware a patient has declined and this is now a new normalfor them,” Wilson said. Advance directives, sometimes called living wills, can guide family members when patients become unable to convey their wishes ...

Flash Editorials December 24, 2011 « DumpDC
By dumpdc
Apparently, with the lack of predictability about business regulation and taxation coming from Washington, temp jobs are the new normal. And how can you blame employers? Washington now lives a month-by-month existence and that forces ...
DumpDC

Volatile Markets the New Normal? - Fox Business Video - Fox ...
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OnMilwaukee.com Milwaukee Buzz: Uncertainty is the new normal ...
Every December, I have the distinct honor to meet with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerces Council of Small Business Executives board of ...
onmilwaukee.com/buzz/articles/normaluncertainty.html

The New Normal | Cancer Survivors Network
I went thru all the necessary motions and almost 2 years later I'm still trying to find myself as I seek that new normal. I take femara, and have some joint pain and ...
csn.cancer.org/node/232684

Plante & Moran Manufacturing| A New Normal: Cliché or Reality?
Survey Report: The New Normal – Cliché or Reality The recession that was felt at the end of 2008 and throughout 2009 caused many companies to re-evaluate ...
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