People doing key jobs can be helped to adopt the winning ways of high performing superstars. It sounds too good to be true, but a new book Winning Companies; Winning People by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas shows how it can be done.

L'Oreal launched the first online networking community for its business game e-Strat Challenge 5. This is the first occasion ever that a leading international company uses the social software of an online interactive network to operate a community for participants in a university students challenge.

Recent short term trades included shorting EBAY at $112, TZOO at $88, TASR at $30 as stock market tops out for the near term.