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- Will Your Gen Y Workers Be Your Economic Salvation?
- Will Your Gen Y Workers Be Your Economic Salvation?RE: Will Your Gen Y Workers Be Your Economic Salvation?even beign born in the middle of crisis is not an indicative that you know how to handle with it. That would be better if you can mix both experience and newbies to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
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- Gen X is Unhappy at Work
- Gen X is Unhappy at WorkGen X is ready for a changeI am in the same generation as you, we are now referred to as the J generation. In between the Boomers and Xs. I devoted more and more of my time to the Fortune company I worked for. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- The End of Time-Based Management?
- Author Tammy Erickson on how the Results-Only Work Environment fits into the evolution of the workplace — and why companies need to rethink the way they evaluate employee productivity. Is ROWE the workplace of the future? Erickson: The idea of decoupling...
- Articles 2008-09-26
- Ethanol Plants Idle, Workers Wait as VeraSun Buyout Drags Out
- Several companies including U.S. oil refiner Valero Energy have swooped up ethanol plants from bankrupt-plagued VeraSun Energy. But employees at many of these plants are still worrying and waiting for the deals to close so they can get back to work. Valero has the highest profile deal --...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
- Now that the dust kicked up over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settled just a little bit, it's worth taking a look at Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell, companies well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race. The EPA released this week its draft regulations requiring biofuels to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- POET CEO: Future of Second-Gen Biofuels Depends on E15
- The argument for increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline has generally stayed within the this-is-good-for-all-us territory. But in a year of bankruptcy filings and idling plants, the ethanol industry is taking a slightly more doomsday approach. In a Bloomberg article, Jeff Broin, head of the largest U.S. ethanol producer, said...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- The Payoff from Retiring Later
- Given the ferocity of the recent bear market mauling, odds are even a stock market rebound isn't enough to get your retirement plan back on track. The truth is you're probably going to have to work a few years longer. How to stay in the game... Let's get real. In...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- What Is a Millennial?
- What Is a Millennial?You are making a huge assumption herethat the baby boomers will retire immediately once they reach retirement age. Nothing is further from the truth. Every single boomer I know wants to continue working when they reach retirement age, although they are usually interested in flexible...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Gate Gourmet staff vote to accept peace deal to end bitter row
- LONDON AFP — A bitter row between ailing in-flight caterer Gate Gourmet and hundreds of sacked workers at its Heathrow airport branch looked to be resolved after hundreds of workers voted to accept a peace deal. The staff cast their ballot at a meeting on Wednesday night. Under...
- Research articles 2005-09-28
- California Kicks Corn-based Ethanol to the Curb; Welcomes Futuristic Biofuels
- The corn ethanol industry already reeling from low gasoline prices and higher corn and energy costs suffered another blow to its bottom line and possibly its future Thursday when the California Air Resource Board OK'd the nation's first low-carbon fuel standard. In a 9-1 vote late Thursday CARB approved...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Social Media: Too Important for Interns?
- The Find: It's summer and companies everywhere are awash in interns, but one blog warns against reflexively giving these eager, young workers the keys to your company's social media presence. The Source: Church of the Customer Blog. The Takeaway: When my colleague Stefan Deeran...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., Coffee Break Column.
- By Jane Roberts, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 2--SCHNEIDER WORKERS HONORED: Schneider National workers in West Memphis will be honored this morning with an award from the Tennessee Army National Guard for going above and beyond to...
- Research articles 2004-06-02
- Leadership Styles, Values, And Experiences Of Generation-X
- As the Boomers head towards retiring from the work force, Generation-Xers will bring new styles, experiences, and values to leadership roles in corporate America. The Boomers will start exiting the work force over the next few years leaving the leadership reigns in many companies up for grabs. Namely they'll be...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Does EPA Biofuels Proposal Really Threaten Corn-based Ethanol?
- Politicians, ethanol producers and environmentalists have worked themselves into a frenzy since the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under 2007 legislation, proposed new standards for the biofuels industry aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Much of the verbal sparring centers on how emissions of biofuels will be measured and whether the proposed rule unfairly...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Does Conoco Deserve a Subsidy to Produce Biofuels?
- ConocoPhillips ended its long-idling animal fat-to-diesel fuel project with Tyson Foods on Wednesday because federal tax credits slashed in half last fall have yet to be restored by lawmakers. The question is whether Conoco, the second-largest U.S. oil refiner, should have ever qualified for the $1-per-gallon tax credit?...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- POET to Use Corn Cobs - Not Natural Gas - to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
- POET has figured out what the rest of the corn-based ethanol industry has failed to grasp: relying on price-volatile fossil fuels to power its plants is bad for business. POET announced Wednesday it will use corn cobs -- specifically the liquid waste created in the cob-to-fuel conversion process -- to power its...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- EU Imposes Five-Year Tariff on U.S. Biodiesel Producers
- U.S. biodiesel producers -- already suffering from low oil prices, weak domestic demand and a delayed Environmental Protection Agency mandate -- were hit Tuesday with a five-year tariff on exports to Europe. The European Union imposed a provisional tariff on imports of U.S.-made biodiesel back in March in response...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Exxon Gives SGI's Algae-to-Fuel Effort $600 Million Kick-start
- ExxonMobil's $600 million partnership with Synthetic Genomics to develop next-generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae is already being cast as a shift in the conservative company's modus operandi. And why not? The largest U.S. oil company by market value has shied away from investments in alternative energy and has been especially...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- The fruits of Tinker Air Force Base's 'Big Hairy Audacious Goals'
- The ape-like cartoon creature that helps inspire Tinker Air Force workers actually sprang from a business plan, the commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center said Thursday. Maj. Gen. Terry L. Gabreski said the picture of a hairy beast with a pink-lipped smile represents the center's...
- Research articles 2005-06-24
- Competing For Talent: A Survey Of Talent Trends In Technology And Telecommunications
- For nowadays' workers, hefty compensation packages and fancy retirement plans just aren't as appealing as they used to be. What they really want - more than anything else - is to control when, where, and how they work. They're happy to work hard, but want to do it on their...
- White papers 2008-03-05
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