I've been reading an early draft of Carol Sanford's new book on moving beyond corporate responsibility, tentatively titled The Responsible Business. Sanford has spent her career helping organizations understand how to serve all ...READ»
On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, GM
Motor Company returned $4.7billion to the U.S government and $1.1
billion the Canadian and Ontario governments. The car company filed for bankruptcy protection
last year in order to shed ...READ»
The projects will receive from $1.4 million to $5 million each and were based on partnerships that require labor and business groups to work together.
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The brand that put rolling excitement on the road for generations of Americans has come to an end. The last Pontiac for the U.S. market was built by General Motors on Wednesday: a white, G6 sedan that rolled off the assembly line ...READ»
“The General Motors Corporation today displayed the prototype of a small car intended to someday match similar Japanese cars in cost and match or exceed them in quality.”So wrote The New York Times on November 4th, 1983. And ...READ»
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Americans may not be working fewer hours, as David Roberts suggested in "All in a Day's Work
" (May), but more of us are working fewer days. In July, Utah became the first state to implement a mandatory ...READ»
In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.READ»
A startup with real vision, class.com is reinventing teaching for the 21st century. Corporate trainers would do well to watch how high-school kids learn online.READ»
Labor organizer Jane McAlevey is forcing companies in Connecticut's ultraprosperous Fairfield County to confront a moral challenge that they would prefer to ignore -- and, in the process, she is forcing all of us to confront our personal sense of justice.READ»
Let’s say you’re the CEO of a company that just lost more than $12 billion dollars the preceding year. Your company is not expected to post an annual profit until 2009. So what do you do? Hide your head in the sand? Scream at ...READ»
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Microsoft releases details of its iPod competitor, Zune
"Microsoft (MSFT) on Thursday released some details about its Zune media player, saying it will go beyond Apple's ...READ»
After the markets closed yesterday, General Motors announced that approximately 35,000 hourly workers have accepted buyouts to leave the company. The huge number was a surprise to both management and the union, indicating that the ...READ»
