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Dolphins With a Weight Problem: Dolphins at Kinosaki Marine World in western Japan are on a low fat diet after failing to jump as high as they had previously in their aquatic performances. [more]
Testosterone May Affect Financial Risk Decisions: Testosterone levels may influence men's willingness to make risky financial decisions, according to a new study. [more]
Forbes Finds 150 Cheap Places To Live: $100,000 goes a lot further in Bend, Ore., than in Manhattan. [more]
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Emergencies: Who Is Most Prepared?: While many US companies have prepared for the worst with written emergency plans, there continues to be no agreed upon standard for these strategies. [more]
10 Communication Rules to Live By: This laundry list of communication principles to live by is worthy of printing out and placing on the lunch room refrigerator door. [more]
A New Approach to the Talent Hunt: This interview with Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, offers a new and unusual approach to getting talented employees when you need them -- apply the principles of supply chain management to people. [more]
A Window into a Mercurial Leader's Soul: Apple's Steve Jobs is a stellar example of what leaders should and shouldn't do, and as this article points out, he does a lot of "shouldn'ts" and doesn't do a lot of "shoulds. [more]
Meeting Multi-Local Leadership Challenges: As companies discover new business opportunities beyond their current geographic location, executives need to overcome motivational barriers and sharpen cross-border execution skills, as this McKinsey report describes. [more]
How Top-Tier Managers Embrace Paradox: This academic study from the Harvard Business School shows that CEOs of top American and European companies don't adopt an either/or approach to achieving goals. [more]
Giving Back to Knowledge Workers: Leaders expect a lot from their knowledge workers (professionals who may know more about what they're doing than the boss does) but expectations work both ways, according to this viewpoint on giving professionals what they need to keep them fully engaged. [more]
A Strategic Approach to Divestitures: It may never be as glamorous as the buy-side, but managing divestitures for maximum value is a vital skill for dynamic organizations. [more]
Watchlist Exec Discusses High-Risk Public Office Job Roles: Last month Dow Jones Watchlist published a list of the top 10 public office job roles with the greatest risk of involvement in money laundering, illicit payments, corruption, and other illegal activity. [more]
How to Make the Business Case for BI: Greater operational efficiency, lower costs, competitive advantage, better customer service -- the potential benefits from a business intelligence software initiative run broad and deep. [more]
Law Firms Gearing Up for Subprime Windfall: The subprime litigation surge is far from over, according to attorneys at corporate law firms surveyed by Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. [more]
Boosting Talent Through Volunteerism: The sluggish economy is flattening funds for training and professional development, while HR managers are under increasing pressure to avoid talent shortages and develop prospective leaders. [more]
Procurement: It's a Whole New Chess Game: The rules have changed in the purchasing arena as consolidating supplier markets and soaring commodity prices have transferred negotiating advantages from buyers to sellers. [more]
Working for the Biggest and the Best: Making both the Fortune 1000 and Best Companies to Work For lists this year, these companies have a reputation for being the biggest and the best. [more]
Companies Prefer Private Sector Health Care: A whopping 84 percent of employers do not support universal health care coverage, according to the 13th annual Watson Wyatt/National Business Group on Health report. [more]
Fear and Loathing in Budgetland: Well, perhaps not fear and loathing as such, but certainly anguish and frustration are hallmarks of the budget process at a good many companies, judging by a new survey from BPM Forum. [more]
Matching BI Tools to Users' Needs: Predictive analytics, dashboards, business query tools, scorecards, spreadsheets, OLAP, interactive reports -- with so many business intelligence (BI) tools available, how does a company choose which to deploy? [more]
Driving Lean Six Sigma Success in the Services Sector: Lean Six Sigma earned its reputation for rooting out costs and accelerating performance in the manufacturing industries, and now it's gaining popularity among services companies. [more]
Forecasting: Spreadsheets Still Rule: An efficient, reliable forecasting capability is no longer a nice-to-have feature; it's an indispensable strategic tool. [more]
BPM Evolving Into EPM: A survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in November 2007 indicated that 80 percent of corporate executives believed that an appropriate business intelligence (BI) strategy could really improve reaction time to market changes and customer service, yet only 15 percent thought that their company had adopted BI best practices. [more]