Earthbag homesare exactly what they sound like -- bags filled with earthen materials stacked to make a house. They often look like bigbeehiveswhen they're completed, but it's possible for them to take other forms as well. Sandbags have long been used to create military bunkers andfloodwalls...
Sometimes the game is so stacked against you that you have no choice but to take all the risk by doing your own thing. I knew that my chances of getting promoted to Managing Director were slim working out of a satellite office. Hence, I decided to leave work and go straight to the...
One approach for gaining more strategic, distinctive capabilities is to develop them in-house. Samsung is a good example of how well this can work. The company (originally named Korea Telecommunications Corp.) made its mark in the late 1970s as an efficient manufacturer of black-and-white tele...