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A Firm Handshake Can Get You a Job: Instead of spending time sprucing up your resume, start working on your handshake. [more]
Beer Safer Than Child: Police in Australia's Northern Territory said they were "shocked and appalled" when they pulled over a car and found a 30-pack of beer secured between two adults while a five-year-old child sat on the floor. [more]
Dancing Goes to the Dogs: Canine freestyle dancing, a competitive sport in which dogs perform dance routines with human partners, originated in British Columbia in 1989 and has gained international popularity. [more]
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SEC Proposal: XBRL Mandatory Within 3 Years: Support for the SEC's decision to mandate the use of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for some regulatory filings has been subdued, but the Commission will push ahead regardless. [more]
Never Mind the GAAP: The likelihood of the SEC requiring companies to file their financial reports using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) instead of GAAP -- probably by 2013-- appears to be a certainty. [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]
The Importance of Image Consciousness: Image isn't everything, but as this article/book review points out, you need to be conscious of how others perceive you if you want to climb to the top rung of the career ladder. [more]
Build Emotional Connections -- Carefully: The main reason people quit their jobs is because they can't connect with their bosses as leaders and as people, as this "how to" on retaining talent points out. [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]
Taking Charge in a Crisis: Excerpts from an interview with Michael Roth, CEO of Interpublic Group, offer a glimpse into the necessary leadership skills for taking the helm at a time of turbulence. [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]
Top 10 Opportunities for G&A Savings: Whether we're already in a recession, heading into one, or just in a slowdown, belt-tightening is much on the minds of consumers and corporate strategists alike. [more]
S&P Rolls Out ERM Review: It's official: Standard & Poor's wants to talk to you about your enterprise risk management (ERM) program. [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]
Can BI Help You Go Green?: Business intelligence software provider SAS Institute Inc is now offering a module that it claims will help companies measure and manage their environmental impact. [more]
Performance Management in the Public Sector: A new study on government and public sector performance management has found that many public sector organizations have performance initiatives in place, but the results are often hindered by poor management. [more]
Workforce Performance Management Market Expected to Reach $2.55 Billion by 2012: The market for workforce performance management (WPM) software and services is still growing, according to the latest forecast from market intelligence provider IDC. [more]
How To Deploy Operational BI: Operational business intelligence (BI) is different than traditional BI in its effort to make data analyses, trends, and plans more accessible to employees at all levels in an organization. [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]
Balancing Risk and Performance: Managing enterprise risk still ranks low on finance executives' list of priorities. [more]