Improve Employee Engagement by Mapping and Supporting Better Quality Leader-Employee Conversations (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) Career Innovation, a workplace ?innovation? lab, launches its enhanced "Mapping Your Conversations about Work Survey" based on its previous ground-breaking research, ?The Conversation Gap?....more...Outlook: Break the Blackwater Habit (Washington Post) P.W. Singer, director of the Brookings Institute's 21st Century Defense Initiative and author of "Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry," was online Monday, Oct. 08 at 11:30 a.m. ET to take readers' questions on his Outlook article listing the myriad ways he sees military outsourcing hampering U.S. efforts in Iraq. ...more... Dr. Kern Wildenthal to Retire after 22 Years as UT Southwestern President (Newswise) Kern Wildenthal, M.D., Ph.D., will retire September 2008 as president of UT Southwestern Medical Center, a position he has held since 1986. He will remain on the faculty as a tenured professor and devote most of his efforts to philanthropic pursuits on behalf of the medical center....more... Departmental settlements (Government News Network) 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review
...more... Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Promotes Michael Yerington to Chief Executive Officer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. today announced that, effective immediately, Michael Yerington has been named President and Chief Executive Officer and Mark L. Heimbouch has been promoted to Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer....more... Interpublic Executives to Be Honored by The ADCOLOR(TM) Industry Coalition's First-Ever ADCOLOR Awards (FinanzNachrichten) The ADCOLOR ā?¢ Industry Coalition and The Interpublic Group ( Nachrichten ) (NYSE: IPG) announced today that Marcio Moreira, Heide Gardner and Lauren Tucker will be honored as Legend, Change Agent and Innovator, respectively, as part of the 2007 ADCOLOR Awards, a program honoring outstanding diverse professionals in each segment of the advertising, marketing and media industries....more... 185 Employers Gather at Career Fair (Brigham Young NewsNet) This year's list of visitors for the BYU Career Fair includes 185 different businesses....more... LOCAL NEWS (Daily Record) After more than four months of renovations, the historic Morristown Green is scheduled to open to the public again on Wednesday....more... K. P. WARAN: Empowering lives with ?wow? factor (New Straits Times) EMBEDDED in everyone?s unconscious mind is the potential to accomplish all kinds of things ? such as stand in front of an audience and deliver a speech; swing a golf club and hit the ball or wrap a boa constrictor around the torso and still smile into a camera....more... |