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Weird Weddings Hit the West Coast: Weddings got wacky on the West Coast last weekend. [more]
Wisconsin Man Shoots His Lawn Mower: A drunken Milwaukee, Wis., man is in trouble with the law for shooting his lawn mower when it wouldn't start. [more]
Yawning Contagious for Dogs, Too: Yawning is contagious -- even for dogs. [more]
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Global Companies' New Responsibility Playbook: If you work in the finance function of a global company and aspire to climb to the top rung of the career ladder, take the first half of the old axiom, "think globally, act locally," very seriously -- even at the "30,000-foot" level. [more]
Enforcement Up, Corruption Up: While anti-corruption enforcement has grown stronger worldwide, some executives believe that business practices are becoming more corrupt, according to the Ernst & Young survey "Corruption or compliance — weighing the costs: the 10th global fraud survey. [more]
Hold On Tight to Your CFO: The lure of the top finance job is not what it was, and CFO turnover is at record highs. [more]
Creative Leadership at Its Best: Meet a CEO who knows how to have fun on the job while never losing focus on the details of day-to-day management. [more]
Strengthening Stakeholder Management Skills: Good leaders understand the importance of managing stakeholder trust but they don't really know how to do so effectively, these academics claim. [more]
Why Leading Companies Support Innovation Prizes: Market leaders realize that offering prizes for innovation can create wealth for the company, as this overview of how several companies score big wins explains. [more]
Time to Tighten Your FCPA Compliance?: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been a focus of enforcement efforts by the SEC and the U.S. [more]
Background Checks Ascend to the C-Suite: Companies are often hesitant to perform background checks on C-level employees and candidates -- at their own risk, according to Ken Springer, Corporate Resolutions president and founder and a former FBI agent. [more]
A New Balance of Power at Financial Companies: The silver lining in the mortgage mess is that it may speed up the separation of the CEO and Chairman roles at financial companies. [more]
The Leadership Skills That Drive M&A Success: Managers, not markets, are the key to success in mergers and acquisitions. [more]
Study: Business Process Management Initiatives Still Immature: The technology-enabled discipline of business process management (BPM) has achieved rapid adoption among large enterprises in the past few years, but success rates have been less impressive. [more]
Subprime Crisis -- A Failure of Leadership?: The recent catastrophically bad decision-making at giant Wall Street firms comes down to one thing, according to Dr E Ted Prince: their leaders' lack of business acumen. [more]
Companies Weakly Facing Employee Language Barriers: Approximately 15 percent of the US labor force is comprised of foreign-born workers, and employers are currently making little effort to overcome language limitations, according to a survey by The Conference Board. [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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]