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Building a Learning Organization

The Idea in Brief As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers don't realize that...

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Articles 2008-04-01

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2 of 3 sought in robbery of W. Philly woman, 76

It wasn't yet dawn on Aug. 1, but a tea kettle was already whistling inside Anna Trabucco's kitchen. Unbeknowst to Trabucco, three devious teens were staking out her West Philadelphia home, waiting to strike. At about 5:40 a.m., the teens burst through her rear basement door, stormed up to the...

Articles 2007-08-10

IDENTIFYING THE NEEDS OF CUSTOMERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Many institutions of higher education are hesitant to consider themselves as customer-driven entities. Even the suggestion of the term customer can arouse many emotions, preconceptions, and misconceptions. The idea that students are partners in developing and delivering quality education threatens the historic, traditional academic role of faculty as purveyor or...

Articles 2007-04-01

Meeting the challenge of corporate entrepreneurship.

Byline: David Garvin and Lynne Levesque Jan 07, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Each company needs to innovate to be successful. However, it is not always easy for companies to handle entrepreneurs or innovators within ...

Articles 2007-01-07

Chinese-Iranian trade fueled by distrust of U.S. Alliance based on oil, arms, vital resources.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST)

Byline: David R. Sands, THE WASHINGTON TIMES United in part by their shared distrust of U.S. power, Iran and China have struck a profitable and growing alliance based on oil, arms and strategic resources. The alliance, analysts say, could complicate two central...

Articles 2005-07-27

Who killed captain video? How the FCC strangled a TV pioneer

The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television, by David Weinstein, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 228 pages, $24.50 You could hardly hear anything above the storm of outrage that day. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had just announced it was easing restrictions on television ownership, allowing...

Articles 2005-03-01

Culture change and organic growth: overcoming barriers to organizational learning

To handle the complex and ever changing nature of work, organizations need to be in perpetual learning mode. But are Canadian companies doing a good job? Some experts say no. "You hear people talking about the virtues of the learning organization at conferences, but when you go...

Articles 2004-10-01

Learning in Action: a Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work - Book Review

David A. Garvin 2000, 272 pages $29.95 hardcover This interesting book explores methods and strategies for implementing change through knowledge in the workplace. Early in the book, the author does a good job of giving file reader basic information about how education works and how people learn. He...

Articles 2004-02-01

The Tracy Morgan Show.(Television Program Review)

(SERIES; NBC, TUE DEC. 2, 8 P.M.) Taped in L.A. by Carsey-Werner-Mandabach and Broadway Video Television in association with NBC Studios. Executive producers, David M. Israel, Jim O'Doherty, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach, Lorne Michaels, Dave Becky, David Miner; co-executive...

Articles 2003-12-01

Department selects program managers for offices of veterinary and laboratory services.

M2 PRESSWIRE-1 August 2003-Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: Department selects program managers for offices of veterinary and laboratory services(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08012003 The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has selected Program Managers for two Offices...

Articles 2003-08-01

OPINION: Critics Voice Outdated Concerns on FCC Decision.

By Glenn Garvin, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 4--Good news: Time travel is finally a reality. How else do you explain the hysterical claims that Monday's FCC decision loosening restrictions on media ownership will lead to...

Articles 2003-06-04

Lack of good science hurts IEQ study

Green Building REPORT An extensive review of research on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in schools indicates that there's a connection between low ventilation rates and nitrogen oxides in the air and a negative impact on students' performance. Perhaps the reviews strongest conclusion, however, is that there just isn't enough...

Articles 2003-03-01

Nordyne. (Residential).(Brief Article)

Model: Frigidaire Model B3VM electric variable-speed air handler Footprint (in.): 43 1/2 (h) by 22 (d) by 19 3/4 or 22 1/2 (w) Serviceability features: Slide-out controls, plug-in heater kits with simple speed selection for the variable-speed blower. ...

Articles 2002-09-30

AARP Kansas names president, council

The Capital-Journal A 72-year-old registered nurse-gerontologist from Wichita is the new volunteer leader of AARP Kansas. Alice Barsamian has been appointed to a two-year term as volunteer state president for AARP Kansas, said AARP Kansas State director Maren Turner, of Topeka. ...

Articles 2002-06-30

A Splendid Little Drug War: Tragedy, farce, and fake brass cojones south of the border. . - Culture & Reviews - Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw - Shooting the Moon: The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike Any Other, Ever - book review

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw, by Mark Bowden, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 295 pages, $25 Shooting the Moon: The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike Any Other, Ever, by David Harris, Boston: Little, Brown, 394 pages, $26.95 STAY AWAY FROM...

Articles 2002-01-01

OKC Legal Briefs: December 12, 2001

Francis Tuttle Technology Center will present a seminar on Friday on journalism inside and outside the courtroom. The seminar, Bill Gates, the Marlboro Man, and Johnny Cochran, will focus on the role modern media plays in current legal issues. Jack Bowen, former anchorman and...

Articles 2001-12-06

[0] DuPage collegians.(Neighbor)

T.J. Boynton, the son of Sally and Thomas Boynton of Aurora, has been awarded the Olive Barrett memorial scholarship, the Thompson prize in humanities for outstanding creative or scholarly work in the humanities, and the Philip J. Wheeler memorial prize in literature at Monmouth College in...

Articles 2001-05-27

ENIGMA.(Review) (movie review)

(U.K.) An Intermedia Films/Senator Entertainment presentation, in association with Meespierson Film CV, of a Jagged Films/ Broadway Video production. Produced by Lorne Michaels, Mick Jagger. Executive producers, Victoria Pearman, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Hanno Huth, Michael White. Co-producer, David Brown....

Articles 2001-01-29

Churches search for common ground

By PHIL ANDERSON The Capital-Journal Eight different churches from the same area of town will join together for a service that focuses on the central beliefs they hold in common at 3 p.m. Sunday at First Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, 1880 S.W. Gage. ...

Articles 2001-01-20

Improving Aluminum Tolerance in Small Grains - Brief Article

The third most abundant element in the Earth's crust, aluminum is a major component of soil clay. It causes no problem in neutral or alkaline pH, but in acidic soils, it damages plant root systems and greatly reduces crop yields. More than half of the world's 8 billion...

Articles 2000-11-01