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Speeding Skateboarder on the Loose: Police in southern Germany are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal -- a speeding skateboarder. [more]
Black Lab Rattles After Eating Golf Balls: Oscar, a five-year-old black Labrador retriever, has a talent for finding golf balls -- but he doesn't retrieve them, he eats them. [more]
Son Ends Up in His Father's Old Dorm Room: Mike Robell, a freshman at Michigan State University, got a big surprise when he moved into his dorm room -- he found that it's the same room his father lived in three decades ago. [more]
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How To Spot an Incompetent Manager: These ten hallmarks of incompetence reveal weaknesses in management capabilities that can sink a company. [more]
Quantifying the Best New Hire: Winning the war for talent is top of mind for senior executives as they try to increase bench strength in their organization. [more]
Crafting an Effective Incentive Program: In today’s tight finance and accounting labor market, incentive programs carry a lot of weight, as this article points out. [more]
Extreme Commuting Becomes Appealing Option: Extreme commuting is gaining popularity with company execs, according to a Korn/Ferry survey of executive recruiters. [more]
How the Rest of the World Retires: Defined-benefit plans may be
fading and hybrid plans relatively unknown in the United States, but they're the norm for much of the rest of the world. [more]
Market For Risk Professionals Is Strong: Technology risk professionals’ total compensation grew nine percent from 2005 to 2006, according to the third annual Professional Compensation Survey by Risk Talent Associates, a risk management executive search firm. [more]
Gender Pay Gap Slowly Closing: A survey by Britain’s Office for National Statistics has revealed that the gender gap between male and female earnings is at an all-time low. [more]
Rewards for a Healthy Workforce: To encourage employees to adopt healthier lifestyles and reign in health care costs, more companies are offering financial incentives. [more]
To Have or Not to Have a Chief Operating Officer?: Some say the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) is evolving and some believe it is becoming obsolete, and after extensive interviews with executives from diverse companies, The Conference Board claims the COO's job is "situational. [more]
Remember the "Hit-by-a-bus" Exercise: Even with corporate governance improving over the past few years, Merrill Lynch and Citibank prove there are major companies that are not prepared with a successor when a CEO departs. [more]
CFOs Speak Up for Roles and Revisions: The roles of CEO and chairman should be held by different individuals, according to 79 percent of CFOs and senior comptrollers who participated in a national survey by Grant Thornton LLP. [more]
Technology for Talent Management: Intuition is not the best tool to use for succession planning, and employers are realizing that talent management technology could help plan everything from recruiting to retirement. [more]
How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line: Only about one-fifth of employees worldwide are fully engaged in their work -- and that's a problem that can hit businesses where it hurts, according to a massive study by Towers Perrin. [more]
Class Action Against Big Four: The Big Four firms are under scrutiny for possibly skimping on overtime pay and other benefits for their unlicensed associates, according to US law firm Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff (KCR). [more]
High-Cost Health Plans Will Rule by 2020: No let-up is in sight for health-care consumers increasingly burdened by employers' cost-shifting strategies. [more]
A Hurdle with Health Plans: Even though consumer-driven health care plans (CDHP) are becoming more familiar, Fidelity Investments research indicates that individuals struggle to understand health plan language. [more]
CEOs Paid More Than They’re Worth: A majority of corporate leaders think CEOs are overpaid, according to a survey by the National Association of Corporate Directors. [more]
The Finance of Football: Running the finance function of the Big 12 Conference may be a dream job for many, but it's everyday reality for CFO Steve Pace. [more]
Internal Audit: Demands Exceed Staff: Internal auditors are being stretched thin -- in addition to the increased reporting and compliance demands in this age of accountability, they are also asked to examine fraud, contract, transaction and business performance risks. [more]
Absenteeism Costly for Companies: Large companies are losing an estimated $760,000 per year in direct payroll costs due to absenteeism, according to the 2007 CCH Unscheduled Absence Survey. [more]