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The Young and the Clueless

The Idea in Brief Hell-bent on sabotaging your company? Then promote your brightest young professionals into your most demanding roles--especially when they threaten to leave unless you fast-track them. Nonsense, you say? Hardly. Promoting talented young...

Tags: Team management, Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, Sharon Ting, competency, VP, 360-degree, succession planning, leadership, team, negotiation, CEO, alliance, incentive, career, collaboration, strategy, sales

Articles 2008-03-10

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Kerry's mistake, Bush's misdirection

IF THIS WERE the NFL, it would be John Kerry's bye week. Bye would be favored by two touchdowns. It's an old joke. But, at least, I didn't botch it. Kerry, on the other hand, botched a joke that seemed to equate life in the military with failure in school....

Articles 2006-11-03

Transformation Delivered

For generations of leaders at the United States Postal Service, success meant meeting service goals and making budget. That's understandable when-every day-you have to deliver mail to more than 142 million homes, serve seven million customers in 38,000 post offices, and manage 86 million pounds of mail traveling through processing...

Articles 2006-03-01

When a Classroom Revolt Is a Good Thing

DURING MY FORMATIVE YEARS as a trainer and facilitator, I worried a great deal about providing a comfortable and safe environment for executives to learn and grow. I worked hard at keeping them happy and engaged, and I was particularly pleased when their daily diaries spoke about how much...

Articles 2006-01-01

Changing workforce: leading effectively when change is the norm: Canadian government managers discover how to weather draconian layoffs and budget cuts by turning inward to become more authentic

In 1994, when it went through a gut-wrenching transition of layoffs and budget cuts, the Canadian government called in experts from the Center for Creative Leadership CCL to help. After 50,000 layoffs and the loss of more than 20 percent of the workforce, the 180,000 employees who remained faced a...

Articles 2005-12-22

Leading in times of transition.

Byline: Michael Wakefield and Kerry Bunker Dec 19, 2005 (Human Resources - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Modern businesses are characterised by constant change. Restructuring, mergers and acquisitions...

Articles 2005-12-19

Edwards renews attack on Bush over Iraq

MIAMI AFP — Senator John Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, kept up the attack on President George W. Bush in a string of television interviews, as surrogates for both candidates clashed over Iraq in the wake of the second presidential debate. The candidates themselves kept a low...

Articles 2004-10-10

Kerry and nukes.(LETTERS)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES In twin columns Tuesday, Frank Gaffney Jr. and Lawrence Kudlow detailed Sen. John Kerry's views on how best to deal with global nuclear proliferation ("Global test ... nuclear nonsense," Commentary). Both writers clearly expressed the Democratic presidential hopeful's...

Articles 2004-10-09

Converting from funnel flow to mass flow Many old coal-fired plants have bunkers and silos with a funnel-flow discharge pattern. Storing PRB coal in such bunkers, which were designed for larger and drier particles of bituminous coal, increases the potential for spontaneous combustion and explosions. Wisconsin Public Service learned this lesson the hard way at its J.P. Pulliam Station as it was testing a blend of bituminous and PRB coal in 1991.

Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s J.P. Pulliam Generating Station in Green Bay currently has six active units with a total capacity of 375 MW. Its first two units were built in 1927 and have been retired. The six units built between 1943 and 1964 are still in service and now collectively...

Articles 2003-10-01

Gaelic Football: Paidi's men are so Kerry good!

SINCE Paidi O Se's boys put us in the bunker last July I knew there was only going to be one team for the All-Ireland. Kerry knocked us out of the championship in Portlaoise and I was quoted as saying afterwards whichever team beat them would...

Articles 2002-09-22