Thursday, February 10, 2005

Welcome Letter Fromthe Doctor

The world is all that can be observed as hardware, software or wetware

by: Susanne Risch
Earlier, when the world was still manageable, as markets had clear boundaries and we for shopping or have had to move when we bought the
coffee business coffee and gasoline at the pump, as had
entrepreneurs have time, her business over the years, large and profitable to make . At that time it was seen as an entrepreneurial approach, to jobs
create - and secure. In the long run, a long work experience.
Then shrink the new technology, the distances, boundaries blurred left
and time are relative. With it came new business models and new
certainties on which so many very devoted to this day. That good size and growth that the shareholders are only interested in quick money. The stock market at the
beautiful story. The most optimistic analyst quarterly report. The
investors on a killing within a year. And rapidly at the Fuehrungskraft
rising share prices, because it suggests success, no matter whether the
strategy for the company long term makes sense or not.

For all these convictions, we have found in recent years, a formula
the mutated synonymous with failures and false priorities,
for shortness of breath and short-sightedness. It says "Shareholder Value
" exactly the opposite: increasing value. Sustainability. The healthy balance of different interests
. A credible company policy.
Tim Koller, McKinsey partner in New York does, in an interview, to rehabilitate the unjustly demonized
term - and thus makes the field to for
Issue that revolves around the many facets of value-based
company leadership.


How do you value?
, we asked ourselves. And found different answers
. The auto supplier Edscha For example, in order to be able to grow
gone public - and the beginning of 2004 for the same reason
back away from her. David Swensen, the manager of Yale University,
creates value through prudent investment management. Since taking office in 1985
the fortune of the American College grew from a day to around 13 billion dollars
. The energy group Vattenfall Europe has the pleasure
its shareholders a new company created equal - And with a
post-merger management process that began long before the actual merger
, organized one of the most complex merger of German industrial history
.

sees the individual employees might be different? Surely even the belongs to the essence of value: It is subject to the subjective approach. The value of each item depends on the importance of the individual attributes to their
. What one person considers to marginal, the other is important. In the balance of individual judgments
prices are determined - and ultimately also evaluated
Enterprise: The listing is simply the sum

personal expectations
.

Subjective assessments that extend into the private corners.

Life is a series of reviews
says Gary S. Becker, who won with
his provocative thesis of the 1992 Nobel Prize:
based Every human
decision on a cost-benefit analysis
says the
economists and makes itself before love does not stop. She is perhaps
romance, says Becker, but certainly the calculus. Disappointing? If all depends on how you rate it
.

Susanne Risch, chief editor of a magazine brand
http://www.brandeins-wissen.de/



Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Bill Dauterive: Dependent

beautiful thoughts work

And they must also be able to, given the fact that the terrible consequences of the tsunami would have prevented or at least minimized.
Now it gets the whole world kept in mind. For thousands of travelers from the "rich world" could have brought disaster with their digital cameras for the "love remained at home + TV stations' record.
The "real time" images of the taking-place "Last Judgement" are now over
all news channels to watch over an entire week. And constantly add new recordings were
the Apocalypse, as more and more "end-time tourists"
again secure home could reach. Some have lost everything there ("All my bags were gone and no one took care of us." Werner F.).
But what is there that have lost everything? This must
stay there and try to make the best of their situation. COOPERATION
.







Thursday, February 3, 2005

Cloths Rack In A Suit Case

BGH : Nursing Home Conditions

No 19/2005
Federal Court decision on nursing home contract clause, the accommodation and food

The plaintiff Consumers' Association demanded that the defendant, a home support, the failure and use of a contract clause stating that the fee for room and board - no breakdown for each per-formance - in a uniform amount will be given to take in home care contracts with residents, the benefits of inpatient care in accordance with the statutory long term care insurance. The district court has upheld an injunction of the use of this clause directed action. The appellate court considered the clause to be admissible and dismissed the action.
The others responsible for the service contract law III. Civil Division of the Federal Court dismissed the revision of the Consumer Protection Association. He has since 1 January 2002 applicable provisions of § 5 para 3 sentence 3 HeimG indeed seen that in the nursing home contract the services of the carrier, in particular the nature, content and scope of the Housing, food and care, including their need to be listed separately on accommodation, meals and support net of fees. In that regard, he underlined the concern of the legislature to improve the transparency of home contracts, and to enable the candidate to a dormitory room in the condition, performance and fees compare to the competition with each other standing homes and an overview of the reasonableness of the fees and remuneration elements to give. He has, however, must consider, on the other hand, that which applies to recipients of statutory long special measures to ideas of transparency have not been included, so that a home support can not be banned, as after the 31 indicate December 2001; law, the fee for room and board in a uniform, not allocated amount. According to § 5 para 5 HeimG must be in line in contracts with recipients of care type, content and scope of in § 5 para 3 HeimG those services and the related charges to the provisions of the insurance. These rules will protect consumers in the sense that the nature and scope of the general care and services for accommodation and meals and the amount of this consideration to be paid to the protection of residents not individually, but be negotiated with the Lei-stungsträgern that occur in so far as agents of care. The agreements, which show after the amendment of the home law and the Eleventh Book of the Social Code by the Care Quality Assurance Act has remained unchanged provision of § 87 SGB XI uniform amounts for room and board are not only for nursing homes as a contractor, but also for the binding in the home care supplied. With this bond, it is not in line when the home carrier in terms of § 5 para 3 sentence 3 HeimG would break down from the uniform amount of at will. Conversely, the service providers - And any arbitration which may be called the failure of the financial statements of compensation agreements - without a change in the terms of the care insurance law are not required to break down the charges for room and board.

Judgement of 3 February 2005 - III ZR 411/04
LG Lüneburg - 4 O 4 / 03 /.. OLG Celle - 13 U 194/03
Karlsruhe, 3 February 2005
press office of the Federal