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CEOs: Finding qualified managers put on back burner

Each year, the Conference Board's CEO Challenge Survey asks hundreds of senior executives from around the world to identify and rate their most pressing concerns.  Finding qualified…

America’s Weighty Problem

As a nation obesity levels have skyrocketed over the last three decades. Today, overweight and obese employees make up over two-thirds of the workforce, costing employers up to $1…

Perfect Labor Storm author inteviewed on Rick Gillis Employment Radio

Listen to Rick Gillis on Rick Gillis Employment Radio with guest co-host Ira S Wolfe on The Business Show with an Employment Focus! (recorded Jan 10, 2009) on Houston…

Sponsor an Executive? A feel-sorry or feel-good story

With all the negative news about the economy and the preposterous bonuses and salaries that executives continue to receive for tanking their companies, it's hard not to…

Doing the Math on Good Jobs

A study released Tuesday from CareerCast.com, a new job site, evaluates 200 professions to determine the best and worst according to five criteria inherent to every job: environment…

Santa faces economic “perfect storm”: elf layoffs possible

For the second time in as many years, the Stowe Reporter has sent a reporter to the North Pole to report on how Santa and his helpers are dealing with…

Layoffs: New Study reveals companies shooting themselves in foot

If your company is undertaking a layoff, be forewarned: Your surviving employees are not going to work harder out of gratitude.  According to a new study by Leadership IQ…

Management Lessons Learned from the Campaign Trail

In less than a week the elections will be over. Hallelujah! Like millions of other people, I’ve grown extremely tired of all the political embellishment and tirades of contradictory…

You won’t believe what the energy industry is running out of!

While Washington tries to figure out how the U.S. can free ourselves from our dependence on oil, another shortage is going to create a seismic shift in our ability…

Cheating in high school soars

Surveys show that cheating in school — plagiarism, forbidden collaboration on assignments, copying homework and cheating on exams — has soared. The latest national survey of 25,000 high school students by…