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When Women Rule the C-Suite

Once women rule the "C-suite," corporate social responsibility (CSR) will become the norm for U.S. business. Why? Call me sexist, but I think that helping others is a function of nurturing and comes more naturally to women than it does to men.READ»

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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Chosen By Obama

Obama Picks Elena Kagan, U.S. Supreme Court Nominee VIDEO Below  - If confirmed by the White House and later by the U.S. Senate, Kagan will replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. VIDEO NBC News: ...READ»

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Supreme Court That Misunderstood Texts, Email to Take on Video Game Debate

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking on the constitutionality of a proposed California law to ban the sale of video games to minors. The same Supreme Court where Chief Justice John Roberts asked the difference between email and a ...READ»

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Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA)

FELA stands for the Federal Employers' Liability Act, which was originally enacted in 1906. However, shortly after the passage of FELA, the United States Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Congress re-passed the ...READ»

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Get Ready for a Tsunami of Political Ads on Facebook and Google

It's a perfect storm, combining a recent Supreme Court decision, the huge surge in social networking, and one of the most explosive midterm elections we're likely to see. And Facebook and Google are excited as all hell.READ»

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Times Are Tough, Why Not Sue Facebook?

Once upon a time, Google was the company to sue. Now it seems to have passed the mantle to Facebook, which is facing an entertaining array of bizarre and quixotic lawsuits--many of them filed in the last few days, and with little ...READ»

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Day of the Outage & Tags & Supreme Court

I will certainly will remember this day as a turning point event, where the turning points is about adaptation and surprise changes.  I happened to swerve around the Twitter outage this morning having began looking at tweets at ...READ»

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Obama - - the Secret Weapon Against Climate Change

All of the world leaders - - developed and developing nations alike - - have now embraced the goal of keeping the average global temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.READ»

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Job Test Ruling May Create Hiring Havoc

Many employers across North America are cheered by the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark employment-discrimination ruling, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2009, in which the court ruled 5-4 in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, who challenged the city's decision to reject the results of a promotion exam because no black candidates scored well enough to advance.READ»

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Grandparents Rights Are Enshrined in Law

Divorce and separation, aside from raising some very difficult issues, also creates problems when it comes to grandparents visiting and caring for their grandchildren.READ»

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The Appeal Deal in Texas

hat's the challenge of appeals and a challenge that Daniel Wannamaker, board certified criminal defense attorney of Wannamaker and Associates, is more than up to handling.READ»

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Innovation Reality Check

Innovative technology is inherently speedy.  And right now Twitter, the social media microblogging site of choice for marketers, mavens, and all manner of multi-taskers moves along at a rapid 140 character per tweet pace.  But you ...READ»

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Corpus Christi DWI Attorney

Mark A. Di Carlo La Solana Building 722 Elizabeth Street Corpus Christi, Texas 78404 Telephone: 361-888-6968 READ»

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Daniel Wannamaker Showcases His Experience When Defending Citizens Charged with White Collar Crimes

Daniel Wannamaker, an accomplished and experienced Texas defense attorney, has been successfully representing individuals and companies charged with a variety of crimes for over two decades.READ»

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Why is it so hard to differentiate leadership from management?

Despite many valiant attempts to separate leadership and management, most people equate them or mix them up in one way or another. The problem is that we think of the person in charge when trying to separate leadership from ...READ»

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How Leadership is Like Selling

Leadership and selling are both forms of influence. They differ primarily in the fact that selling is self-interested. It’s a way of making a living. The salesperson is interested in making money by selling products or services. ...READ»

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Leadership of Outsiders

In my efforts to find a new way to differentiate leadership from management, it has occurred to me that there are lots of examples where leadership is shown by people who are not in a position to manage the implementation of their ...READ»

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State of the Unions

Recently I got in touch with a journalist who was researching a story about how the election of Barack Obama may affect people’s income. I focused on one issue, the laws against wage discrimination. You may recall that, in 2007, the ...READ»

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The Unimportance of the Next President

Today America chooses a new president in what is one of the most pivotal elections in history. The world changed sharply during the Bush administration with two recessions, 9/11 attacks, wars in the Middle East, and rising new ...READ»

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WSJ Says BOO!

With Halloween just over, the Wall Street Journal jumped out from behind a hedge fund and tried to scare the business community right out of its Brooks Brothers boxers. Like most haunted houses and scary apparitions at this time of ...READ»

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Free Speech and Censorship in Online Communities

Is free speech an absolute right in online communities? Yes, but community owners have the right to establish and enforce codes of conduct.READ»

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The Rescue Squad

Dubbed "the rescue squad" because it has won so many high-profile, high-stakes, high-speed cases for American big business, Gibson, Dunn Crutcher explains how it operates -- and wins -- with efficiency, flexibility, and speed.READ»

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Sister Cities

Fast Company visits Houston, San Francisco, and Boston in search of female leaders with smart advice for tough times. Here, a dozen powerful women (and a few men) share their thoughts on leadership, crisis, and mentoring.READ»

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Final Word

The Supreme Court weighs in on global warming.READ»