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		<title><![CDATA[Jerra Spence: Encouraging Empowerment]]></title>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jerra Spence : Encouraging Empowerment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerra Spence is the founder and CEO of Sugar Hooker Entertainment (S.H.E.), a multi-platform company that supports the empowerment of women.  Spence talks about why feminism is still relevant and the long and short term benefits of running an integrity-driven business.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Completing Empowerment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have some great friends on Capitol Hill who more than just support the National Guard-they also share our values, our vision and our determination to keep fighting until the objective is secured. I'm talking about people like Sens. Patrick Leahy and Christopher Bond and Reps. Gene Taylor and Tom...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers unhappy with the Pentagon's pace to implement National Guard empowerment   Lawmakers who successfully worked to include provisions of National Guard empowerment in the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act NDAA are growing impatient. "Let's get this done now," U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., co-chair of the House...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe passes law to give locals lion&#39;s share in firms: report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARARE AFP &#8212; Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, facing elections this month, has approved legislation ensuring the country's black population gets a majority stake in public-owned firms, a state newspaper reported Sunday.  "According to the indigenisation and economic empowerment law, indigenous Zimbabweans shall own at least 51 percent of the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[UNIFEM and Avon Announce Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Advance Women's Empowerment: Company Contribution Benefits UN Trust Fund.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --     - Reese Witherspoon and Suze Orman among the Featured Speakers at  Global Summit for Better Tomorrow in Celebration of International  Women's Day-     - The Largest One-Year Corporate Contribution Ever Received by the  Fund-...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[UNIFEM and Avon Announce Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Advance Women's Empowerment: Company Contribution Benefits UN Trust Fund]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Nanette Braun, UNIFEM, +1-212-906-6829, or +1-916-667- 1696, Nanette.braun@unifem.org; Kimberly Bernhardt, kbernhardt@bncpr.com, or Dana Waisberg, dwaisberg@bncpr.com, BNC | Bragman Nyman Cafarelli, +1-212-253-4646  NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and Avon Products, Inc. are announcing a public-private partnership...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Black firms move into manganese: some of the world's biggest mining companies have signed deals with empowerment firms to further develop the South African manganese sector. But, as Neil Ford argues, the country's critical shortage of power could undermin]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in most other industries, mining sector investors are required to allocate equity to black empowerment enterprises BEE in order to share the economic benefits of their projects more widely among South Africans.  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  Aside from promoting empowerment and greatly increasing national manganese production capacity, the recent...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does Fear Motivate Employees?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some bosses lead through empowerment, others through intimidation. When I think of an  empowering boss, I think of exemplars such as Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard and "The H-P Way." On the intimidation side, well,  let's just say Al Dunlap earned his nickname "Chainsaw".    So which...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Katzenbach Partners Profile, Pt. 1: How Employee Empowerment Vaulted Them to the Top Tier]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management consulting is an industry built on trust and a solid reputation. A perusal of the most prestigious firms as ranked by employment researcher Vault yields the fact that nearly all of the top twenty-five have been around a while and assembled large staffs of consultants. So how does a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?RE: Can Employees Produce Without Trust and Empowerment?It appears the author's bias with regard to Wal-Mart is coloring her judgment of whatever the reason is for the poor customer service.  I see the allegation, "The obvious explanation is that employees just donâ€™t care...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[2007 Chairman's Annual Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I joined NGAUS as a life member in 1979. In the years since, I think I've developed a thorough understanding of our association and its worth. But I gained an even greater appreciation of the true character of NGAUS this year, my first as your chairman. What has been reinforced...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word "empowerment" has received a lot of bad press in the business world. Too often, it has been used as a gesture to appease discontented employees and as a means of abdicating responsibility on the part of managers: if you can get employees to adopt a sense of ownership...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Committment to Education and Empowerment Spur Progressive Review.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-13 June 2007-Pinnacle Digest: Committment to Education  and Empowerment Spur Progressive ReviewC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS  LTD    RDATE:13062007    To read this article in its entirety, visit us at  www.pinnacledigest.com.    Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) experienced a loss of 0.95 Tuesday...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[John Hammond leads 100 Black Men of America organization]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John B. Hammond III is the new president and CEO of 100 Black Men of America. In this post, Hammond will be responsible for the 106 worldwide chapters of the organization that promotes education and economic empowerment in the Black community.  He formerly served as senior manager at Booz...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Empowering the Air Guard]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_200702/ai_n18706055]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Air Guard faces a set of challenges just as daunting as those confronting the Army Guard.   Many of you probably noticed that my first few columns dealt primarily with Army National Guard issues. Army Guard equipment shortages, mobilization frequency and post-mobilization training are certainly critical matters. And...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Addressing Empowerment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_200701/ai_n18622259]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally had the chance to share some NGAUS perspectives with the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves last month on Capitol Hill. Several active-component generals have testified to the commission since it started work in March, but Dec. 14 was our first opportunity to formally address the congressionally...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Naspers Limited Announces Results of Black Economic Empowerment Schemes at Media24 and MultiChoice South Africa]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Naspers Limited (NASDAQ:NPSN)(JSE:NPN), today announced the results of black economic empowerment schemes at Media24 and MultiChoice South Africa.  Naspers chairman, Ton Vosloo, announced today that the public offer to black economic empowerment individuals and groups to invest in Media24 and MultiChoice South Africa MCSA...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate South Africa struggles to shake off white dominance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG AFP &#8212; A dozen years after the end of apartheid, black business leaders in South Africa are growing increasingly frustrated at the continued concentration of corporate power in the hands of whites. While the government may have drawn up legislation to tackle the imbalances, business experts say that efforts...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[South African mining houses seek black partners]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200511/ai_n15751368]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG AFP &#8212; South African mining houses are slowly but surely starting to comply with legislation demanding 15 percent black ownership by 2009 to correct economic imbalances created by apartheid.  In a major announcement this week, diamond mining giant De Beers said it planned to sell a 26 percent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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