http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/management/ en-us Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:27:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386173/posts The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — SNIPPET: "Khaled Nawaya, a flight instructor, was arrested by Canada Border Services agents when they found $800,000 in gold coins and other currency in his car and pockets on Oct. 6, as he crossed into Surrey, B.C., near Vancouver." SNIPPET: "He'd been living in the U.S. since he was 17 and had gained approval for permanent residency in Canada. Besides the gold, Canadian agents found a ring bearing the insignia of Hezbollah, which has been listed as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government since 2002. They also seized 9/11 conspiracy theory-themed DVDs and a... CTVBC.ctv.ca - THE CANADIAN PRESS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386173/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383581/posts In 1995 the federal government began transplanting Canadian gray wolves into Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. That program touched off a fierce range war that continues to rage, pitting farmers, ranchers, hunters, conservationists, outdoor recreationists, and rural folk against the major environmentalist lobbying organizations, government bureaucrats, the big-city media, and urban politicians. After being protected for 14 years, limited hunting seasons have finally been allowed for wolves this fall, and around 150 wolves have been taken thus far. Wolf advocates are howling that the permitted hunts are "barbaric" and that those who kill wolves are "murderers." A coalition of radical environmental... New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383581/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2316128/posts There have been 14 serious mountain lion attacks in California, three of which ended in death, in the past 23 years. The three people killed were Barbara Schoener, 40, a wife and mother of two children; Iris Kenna, 56, a high school counselor; and Mark Reynolds, 35, a bicycling enthusiast. Among the injured were a 5-year-old girl who lost an eye and was partially paralyzed; Anne Hjelle, 30, a former U.S. Marine and physical fitness instructor; and Jim Hamm, 70, a retiree living in Humboldt County. It’s amazing how folks can distort figures. In researching this column, I went to... Sun Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2316128/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:37:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2314677/posts A friend from a long time ago--just before the turn of the century--came up here to the Sandhills of Nebraska today, and we spent a long time reminiscencing about the Good Old Days of Reagan, Bush, Gingrich, and Bush, and speculating about when the 0bamareich's going to come crashing down. He reminded me of something I long ago had forgotten, and having been reminded of it, an old question recrudesces to the surface. Where did I go wrong? Back then, just before the turn of the century, I was records supervisor for a private contractor to Immigration & Naturalization, in... conservativecave http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2314677/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:18:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312730/posts AIRBORNE: Hunts allowed with airplanes only when it's a biological emergencyWASHINGTON -- Alaska's predator control program to kill wolves, which drew renewed national scrutiny during former Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for vice president, is under attack in Congress. Two California Democrats have introduced legislation that would all but ban the practice of shooting wolves from airplanes to control their numbers. The legislation, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. George Miller, would force Alaska game officials to declare a biological emergency that shows the imminent collapse of a species without the program. Even if the state could demonstrate such an... Anchorage Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312730/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309642/posts Bogus Theories, Bad for Business The follies of ‘management science’ and the consulting that promotes it. By PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON Three years ago, Matthew Stewart published a ­provocative article in The Atlantic magazine blasting modern management theory and ­education. His advice to anyone considering an MBA was “don’t go to business school, study philosophy.”The ­secrets of business, he said, were to be found in ­history, literature and the classic ruminations on life and existence, not in the half-baked ramblings of ­business academics, consultants and “gurus.” In “The ­Management Myth,” he expands the Atlantic article into a devastating bombardment of managerial... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309642/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:24:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285473/posts Southern California's forest plan is in limbo following a recent court order declaring that it violates federal law, a finding that could impact measures being taken to manage the region's vast forestland and reduce the perennial danger of catastrophic fire. Last month, federal court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco said the plan governing operations and recreation on the San Bernardino, Cleveland, Angeles and Los Padres national forests lacks specifics about how activities such as off-road vehicle use and brush clearing might impact endangered plants and animals. The case remains open and the government is working to craft a... Riverside Press-Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285473/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:16:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276814/posts Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jack Welch is putting his name and money behind a little-known educational entrepreneur, injecting some star power into the budding industry of online education. Mr. Welch is paying more than $2 million for a 12% stake in Chancellor University System LLC, which is converting formerly bankrupt Myers University in Cleveland into Chancellor University. It plans to offer most courses online. Chancellor will name its Master of Business Administration program The Jack Welch Institute. Chancellor's leading investor is Michael Clifford, an entrepreneur who has launched two publicly traded companies in the past year: Grand Canyon... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276814/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:54:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256936/posts Reporting from Sacramento -- In this economy, every state is hurting. Unemployment is in double digits, tax receipts are taking a dive and deficits are piling up. But, once again, California seems to be in a class of its own when it comes to financial dysfunction. The problems here eclipse those elsewhere. California has the distinction of being the only state that is constantly running out of cash. California is the only one pleading with the federal government to backstop an emergency borrowing plan. California is the only state that never completely closed its deficit from the last economic downturn... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256936/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 17:21:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2192852/posts Now that we are in the middle of a real estate disaster there is a great hue and cry for regulatory reform. We were here before in the early 1990's. The answer on that occasion was real estate appraisal licensing. Now the thrust is on Appraisal Management Companies (AMC's). Licensing did and does have some potential to address the proper evaluation of collateral for loan purposes. In the intervening years, however, it was subject to what is known in political science as "regulatory capture*". The emphasis in the New York State Attorney General Andres M. Cuomo proposal on Home Valuation... Pasadena Sub Rosa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2192852/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:22:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182985/posts While everyone is distracted with the Pelosi Reid Obama artery–choking, cardiac arrest, Pork Barrel Spending Bill, congress is sneaking-ly trying to pass the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Left-wing environmentalists are behind this bill to purposely undercut current progress toward affordable domestic energy. Essentially they will be stealing 300 million barrels of proven oil and 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from any future use. ATR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182985/posts#comment Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2138660/posts 10 Cars That Damaged GM's Reputation (With Video) GM's current precarious situation didn't come about overnight. There are arguments to be made that various government regulations led to the disaster and that management can't escape much of the blame, and there are plenty who contend it was a series of disastrous union labor contracts that have put the company at risk. But there's one thing everyone agrees on: Over the past few decades GM put some truly terrible products out on the market. Unreliable, uninteresting and flat ugly, these were cars that simply destroyed GM's reputation.... 1. 1971-1977 Chevrolet Vega... Popular Mechanics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2138660/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:02:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2137398/posts The seeds of decline are sewn when great corporations are at their zenith. It is then that they become bureaucratic and wasteful, and start promoting management based on committee approval rather than creative dynamics. At their peak, corporations are dismissive of creativity. Team players are valued over inventive mavericks. Consultants and systems are revered because they absolve managers of making hard decisions. The conditions for failure are thus assured. Sometimes corporations disappear like the once dominant Pan American Airways, or they struggle on in diminished state like Western Union. Creative people leave companies when they suspect that the arteries are... North Star Writers Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2137398/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133509/posts Jim Manzi has done some of the best analysis of the proposed bailout of GM, Ford and Chrysler--or, one should more properly say, bailout of the United Auto Workers, otherwise slated for extinction. Here, he addresses the theory that the Big Three are in the midst of a turnaround, and if we only keep them afloat a while longer, they'll be profitable again. This chart pretty much says it all:[go to site for chart] AutoSales713.gif Bob Cunningham, meanwhile, does some basic arithmetic: As of the close of business on Friday the market cap for General Motors was about $1.9 billion,... Power Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133509/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:57:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2119715/posts It's the Catholic Church, Not Corporation Approaching the Church with a business-school mindset ignores that the priesthood is a calling and not a career, says BW reader Thomas Szyszkiewicz By Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz Catholic bishops are having a hard time finding candidates who can manage as well as they preach, but they're also finding it hard to find ones who can preach, period. The preaching is primary, and management way down on their list of priorities. After all, Jesus didn't say, "Go out to all the world and manage well." That's not to say the Catholic Church should ignore sound... www.businessweek.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2119715/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:07:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044549/posts Anger management for womenWe regard irritability in men as a sign of status. But in women, we see it as a sign of incompetence Clare Longrigg guardian.co.uk, Friday July 11, 2008 Hillary Clinton's occasional irritable outbursts on the campaign trail were accompanied by a sound of tut-tutting from observers: she can't hack it; she's not in control. Had she been a man, these outbursts of anger would have been interpreted as assertiveness, intolerance of fools, a sign of status. A Yale psychologist who worked in Clinton's office has produced a report demonstrating that while people accept anger in men, in... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044549/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:00:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036299/posts Here are some additional qualities that embody superior leadership. Great leaders surround themselves with greatness. They actively seek out the best possible people and hire them to fill all key positions within their organizations. Great leaders know that surrounding themselves with excellence is a direct reflection on their own character, abilities, and effectiveness as leaders. They understand that their own success and the success of their organizations depend mostly on hiring and promoting the best qualified, ethical, skilled, responsible, mature, and productive people and giving them the proper resources, authority, and freedom to do what’s needed for the long-term benefit... ChrisBanescu.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2036299/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991002/posts We used to be the world's most skillful entrepreneurs and managers. Now we're laughingstocks. What happened? The dollar plunged to new lows against foreign currencies this week. There are plenty of reasons for its plunge, but at the most basic level, the dollar's weakness reflects the world's collective, two-thumbs-down verdict about the ability of the United States—businesses, individuals, the government, the Federal Reserve—to manage the global financial system and the world's largest economy. Countries that outsourced their monetary policy by pegging domestic currencies to the dollar are having second thoughts. Kuwait last year detached the dinar from the dollar, and... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991002/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986657/posts Now, the predator powerful enough to take down a bull elk is lying helpless under a tent of fir trees while Maletzke replaces the batteries in her radio collar, checks her teeth and measures her girth. Jane is part of a healthy cougar population that lives in relative harmony with its human neighbors in the rapidly growing communities just east of Snoqualmie Pass. In the past six years, Jane has killed deer less than 50 paces from homes — yet residents don't even realize she's there. She has never harmed pets or livestock, nor have any of her offspring. The... The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986657/posts#comment Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:28:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870372/posts A reorganization of workers at the Swedish Tax Authority is partly shaped on studies of apes, according to a leaked internal report. Employees are not flattered by the comparison. The tax authority is currently undergoing its largest reorganization for many years. One of the foundations of the restructuring plan is a report which says that studies of apes show that people work best in groups of 150. The reorganization was announced earlier in the summer. Work is being moved from small towns to larger towns and cities. Around 1,350 people are affected by the move. Economies of scale are a... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870372/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:40:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867022/posts The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law. In the past six years, the Office of Labor Management Standards, or OLMS, has helped secure the convictions of 775 corrupt union officials and court-ordered restitution to union members of over $70 million in dues. The House is set to vote Thursday on a proposal to chop 20% from the OLMS budget. Every other Labor Department enforcement agency is due for a budget increase, and overall the Congress has added... OpinionJournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867022/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:34:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840677/posts Norwegians have the highest job loyalty in Europe, and all of the Nordic countries are happy at work. The European Employee Index (EEI) survey carried out by Danish consultancy Ennova, covered 20 European nations. The EEI showed that besides being loyal, in terms of job enjoyment Norwegians were second only to Danes. "We are part of a Nordic tradition of cooperative relations in the work place that is completely unique in an international context," said *Even Bolstad, head of HR Norway, Ennova's cooperative partner in the survey. "The five Nordic nations are all in the top ten in all categories... www.aftenposten.no http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840677/posts#comment Sun, 27 May 2007 22:21:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764641/posts ...The most celebrated case involved Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary who resigned the Harvard University presidency last February after a stormy five-year tenure, which included a no-confidence vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the prospect of another. But top officials have also departed after no-confidence votes at a range of other campuses, large and small, public and private, including Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier institution for the deaf; Case Western Reserve, a major research university in Ohio; Baylor University, a Baptist institution in Texas; and the small University of Maine at Presque Isle. The Explanation... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764641/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:43:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764045/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans have a bias against cars made by U.S. automakers, but an AP-AOL Autos poll found flickers of loyalty that could offer hope for an industry struggling to survive. The problem for Detroit is changing perceptions that often don't match reality. hose questioned in the survey said they have more faith in Japanese-made cars than in vehicles produced by Detroit's Big Three. But General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group are going back to the future in their uphill effort to again inspire consumer loyalty and regain market share. What is the American auto... http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070108/autos_ap_poll.html?.v=2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764045/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:15:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708998/posts the rant the kine that tread the corn2006.09.24 As one who comes from a background of working class poverty, I know what it's like to live in fear. While the average middle-class worker gets a yearly raise (plus a Christmas bonus and plenty of paid holidays) and has a little cash put away for a rainy day, most low-skilled workers are people who live paycheck to paycheck and who do not receive regular wage increases. These workers are extremely reluctant to agitate for more money out of fear of being fired and replaced by a lower-paid foreign worker (legal or... brucelewis.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708998/posts#comment Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:30:36 GMT