Ward Resigns
Lloyd Ward (pictured above) resigned as CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) amid accusations of ethics code violations and mismanagement. The former Maytag CEO had been under investigation for...
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Obama Closing In On Senate Seat
Illinois state senator and Harvard-trained civil rights lawyer Barack Obama is one step closer to claiming a U.S. Senate seat (see Newspoints, February 2004). Obama won his state’s Democratic nomination,...
Feast Or Famine
Q: I produce T-shirts by creating heat transfer designs, and the business has taken off. The problem is either I have more work than I can handle or nothing at...
To Be the Best, Recruit the Best
If you are the smartest, most talented, most expert on a team that YOU assembled--YOU LOSE. (And you could be an idiot.) Great leaders are smart enough to recruit people who are smarter and more talented than they are in their respective areas of expertise. They recognize that they only need to be the best and smartest at leadership--not at everything or even anything else.
Barnes & Noble Plans to Close 239 Stores Nationwide
Competition from Wal-Mart, Amazon, & e-books force a rethinking on the value of brick & mortar stores.