According to a Stanford psychologist, you'll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.

While the Internet still retains some of the "wild wild west" feel, increasingly Internet activity, and particular blogging, is being shaped and governed by state and federal laws. For US bloggers in particular, blogging has become a veritable land mine of potential legal issues, and the situation isn't helped by the fact that the law in this area is constantly in flux. In this article we highlight twelve of the most important US laws when it comes to blogging and provide some simple and straightforward tips for safely navigating them.

Globalization is an issue that has captured the popular imagination, both positively and negatively. It has also been the focus for much academic research. The goal of this article is to anchor contemporary analysis of global strategy firmly in the classical mode of thought. The author supports that argument with two main lines of reasoning. The first identifies globalization as a further stage in the stadial analysis of societal evolution. The second identifies the competitive actions taken in implementing global business strategy as consonant with the analysis of competition as a dynamic process in classical economics.

Structured performance reviews allow managers to help employees recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and to provide direction in improving skills and performance. This evaluation form is designed to make it easier for managers to deliver the constructive feedback employees need. It provides a framework for developing an evaluation system, built on an assessment of five categories of performance: communication, interaction, productivity, quality concerns, and job knowledge and skill.

Just getting started with online testing? Getting ready to take Google Website Optimizer out for a spin? Here are 64 tips on elements you can test and some helpful info to get you going.

The use of cash is proportional to the rate of growth of any product. The generation of cash is sa function of market share because of the experience curve effect. The BCG growth share matrix is a diagram of the normal relationship of cash use and cash generation.

Editor's Note: written in 1973...

Preparing for a big speech? Resources on the Web can help.

Two-thirds of the 250 largest companies in the world have adopted sustainability reporting as a tool to gauge future performance. This approach has little to do with vague concepts of corporate social responsibility or public relations ploys and everything to do with long-term business strategy. It is a crucial companion to financial reporting that provides data on nonfinancial factors related to environmental, social and governance issues that affect future performance, income generation and value preservation.

Seth Godin reprints an article he originally wrote for Fast Company about a different kind of MBA...

The right strategy and preparation are important elements in successful negotiation, but unless we use the right verbal and nonverbal communication we may never get what we want. Knowing the rules that that can set the tone or "code" of a negotiation, and how we can successfully switch that code, is vitally important. Without that knowledge, this author points out, we may never get what we want.

A new playbook is helping private equity investors earn strong returns, at a time when buyouts have never been bigger or bolder. As deal prices and the cost of debt rise, private equity firms can no longer count on leverage and financial maneuvers to deliver outsized gains. To succeed in this environment, private equity firms need a different formula. As soon as a deal closes, they must stop thinking like investors and start acting like company owners intent on making their business more valuable. The new owner-activists follow a disciplined process for staging, accelerating, and profiting from breakthrough operational improvements. And it's one that corporate acquirers would do well to adopt.

Attention, shoppers: Did you find everything you were looking for? Retail customers who answer "yes" to this question might very well represent the Holy Grail to retail operators who want to increase their sales with only a modest increase in costs or, in some cases, increase sales by merely reallocating staff within a store at no extra cost. Impossible? Not according to a new study on retail store execution by Wharton operations and information management professors Marshall L. Fisher and Serguei Netessine, and Wharton doctoral student Jayanth Krishnan.

For any organization, the starting point of greatness is not in meeting expectations--whether of shareholders, board members, or constituents--but fulfilling a Purpose that fits the identity of the organization. For example, is a foundation charged primarily with discovery: inventing new approaches to helping people? Or with excellence: promoting a high standard of service and execution? Or with altruism: making greater numbers of people happy? Or with heroism: proving that difficult challenges (such as natural disasters) can be mastered?

The answer will vary from organization to organization, but the central point is universal. Organizations that thrive over time do so by invoking and fulfilling a purpose: ideally one based on a moral tradition that has stood the test of time.

Includes the following articles:

Checking India's vital signs
A graphic look at the country's economic progress and problems.

What executives are asking about India
The head of McKinsey's Indian offices addresses the concerns of senior multinational executives.

How India's executives see the world
Business leaders across India share an upbeat vision of the future while recognizing the obstacles ahead.

Winning the Indian consumer
Multinationals that successfully adapt their products to India's largely untapped market will have the advantage.

Premium marketing to the masses: An interview with LG Electronics India's managing director
Kwang-Ro Kim believes that Indian consumers are complex and that companies must make long-term commitments and investments to understand them.

When to make India a manufacturing base
Multinational corporations are starting to see the country's potential.

Ensuring India's offshoring future
The country must not only produce more top-quality engineers but also show the world the depth and quality of its talent in other fields-and in cities beyond Bangalore and Mumbai.

An upgrade for the Indian IT services industry
As competition intensifies, the industry must go global.

Securing India's energy needs
Demand is outstripping supply. Will the country find the reserves it needs to fuel its growth engine?

Reforming India's financial system
Its underdevelopment is hindering the country's economic growth.

India's economic agenda: An interview with Manmohan Singh
The prime minister discusses his plans to modernize the country's infrastructure, attract foreign investment, and create jobs-all in the service of eliminating chronic poverty and disease in India.

How the "halo effect" distorts our view of company performance.

As complexity and demand for new products grow, companies are realizing that their supply chains need to be more flexible.Yet while they realize the importance of flexibility, they struggle with how to accomplish this difficult task.

What are your rivals' future plans? Will they launch new products? How profitable are they? Find out - the legal way - with BNET's step-by-step guide to competitive research techniques.

Want to make your meetings more productive? You may learn a thing or two from this gathering of warring gangs.

Executive coach, Dan Coughlin, asserts that great businesses are defined by their ability to accelerate, which he defines as the ability to increase the rate of achieving desired outcomes in a sustainable manner. These 15 applicable truths will enable you to take your company or career from 0 to 60 while optimizing your passion for your work.

Many companies wait too long to attempt transformations, doing so only when the signs of trouble have become obvious. But that's almost inevitably too late. High performers, by contrast, change before they must, knowing that the best way to transform is from a position of strength.

Streamlining processes frees up resources for competitive differentiation.

To what extent do firms pursue strategies of flexibility in response to uncertainty - to what extent do they use 'real options'? Goncalo Pacheco-de-Almeida and Professor Peter Zemsky explain how resource accumulation affects whether a firm will jump into an investment from the get-go, or if it will take the option to wait for investment. They present research in a realistic light, offering a theory of investment under uncertainty, when resource accumulation takes time and there is imperfect competition.

Why expanding overseas is your ticket to new markets, new ideas, and a world of adventure.

Editor's Note: the bulk of this article is found in the sub-articles on the right side of the page:
# My Awakening
How an entrepreneur from Singapore opened my eyes to what I have to do to remain competitive in Springfield.
# An On-The-Ground Look At Asian Competition
You can't avoid Asia's gazelles by staying home. They're intending to compete right here.
# How to Calculate Political Risk
Prepared to lose it all? No? Read onÂ…
# The Shape of Things to Come
# How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology
Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble.
# How To Get Started
From dealing with red tape to protecting patents to getting paidÂ…
# How to Be a Local, Anywhere
If you're a leader, lead. When my company explores a new market, I'm the first one off the plane.
# Pat McGovern's Tips for Business Travelers
# Building a Global Network
Who you need to know and how to find them.
# How I'm Adjusting to the European Market
Sometimes, it's just a matter of size.
# Six Ways to Open an Office Overseas
Meet the man who's tried them all.
# Â…And One Way to Do Without
This international sales team is deskless and happy.
# Fully Committed
Let others proceed gingerly. Bülent Çelebi has set up an American-style company in Turkey, where he enjoys advantages his competition can only dream of.
# The World is Not Enough
Bülent Çelebi is a worldly guy, having lived in Turkey, Hong Kong, and the U.S. before returning to Istanbul to establish AirTies--which has a supply chain as global as its founder. Here's how Çelebi assembles his product, a wireless router.
# Where to Go for Help

To avoid the heartbreak of being sacked, follow these 12 steps for building currency in the workplace.

Atrophy, entropy and apathy are holding back many organizations and managers today. How, then, to nullify those negative forces and create a culture that enables and rewards managers for taking bold, decisive action? Answering this question effectively is a leader's greatest challenge today, these co-authors write. In this article, they offer suggestions for creating an organizational culture defined by energy, imagination and the exercise of willpower.