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Change or Die

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Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia

One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change.  Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin.  It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to.  Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target.  Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

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First look – Wall Street and the Financial Crisis; Anatomy of a Financial Collapse « The Bankwatch

Follow the link above to another link for the pdf version of the US Senate Levin/Coburn report.  In keeping with my policy of attribution the link is to an article where I became aware of the original report.

Read broadly and think critically.

More on Flight Risk

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Employee Loyalty Waning as National Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall

No, we are not talking about holes in 737’s.  We are talking about MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends.  I always credit my sources so instead of a direct link to the MetLife study I’ve linked the article where I first read about the study.  There is a link at the bottom of that article to the download page at MetLife.

Truth AND Consequences

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Medical News: Cardiologist Who Revealed Echo Errors Out of a Job – in Cardiovascular, Atherosclerosis from MedPage Today

In an e-mail, an Aurora spokesman said Sagar’s firing was not related to her presentation.

“Dr. Sagar’s contract was terminated for a number of reasons, none related to her study. This was in no way a retaliatory action. As a matter of fact, the study supported our quality improvement initiatives and has resulted in heightened standards in the echo lab.”

If an employee termination is not a retaliatory action then why does an official spokesperson even mention the thought and go on to elaborate further?  Sadly, stories like this no longer surprise me.