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Encouraging Women into Senior Management Positions – How Coaching Can Help [Summary], Broughton A, Miller L, Research Report 462, Institute for Employment Studies, March 2009, a study on behalf of The Foundation of Coaching [via Stuart Basefsky] “Despite long-standing anti-discrimination legislation in the US, UK and across Europe, women still remain under-represented in many occupations, …
Through the Labyrinth: Real Answers on How Women Become Leaders – With considerable detail and insight, Diana Philip reviews a recent book that explores whether the concept of whether the glass ceiling still accurately describes the challenges women face to realize leadership aspirations. The book’s authors examine leadership theories developed by multiple disciplines to explain …
Health Care Costs: A Primer – “The Kaiser Family Foundation released an updated primer that examines recent trends in health care costs in the United States and the factors that contribute to their rapid rise. Prepared by Foundation staff, the primer also describes the types and sources of health care spending, the demographic factors associated …
New on LLRX.com – New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts: This guide by Marcus P. Zillman is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on the Internet covering new economy analytics, resources and alerts.
News release: “Starting today, The eBook Store from Sony will provide access to more than a half-million public domain books from Google optimized for current models of the Reader. At Sonys eBook store (ebookstore.sony.com), a button on the front page leads to the books from Google, which people can transfer to their PRS-505 or PRS-700 …
MARI®Mortgage Asset Research Institute Eleventh Periodic Mortgage Fraud Case Report To: Mortgage Bankers Association, by Denise James, Jennifer Butts Michelle Donahue, March 2009 “The year proved to be a swift introduction to how the industry must and will soon change in order to correct the financial turmoil that so quickly flipped the entire American economy …
“The unprecedented bet that many banks made on mortgages, real estate development and other real estate related lending during the middle part of this decade has produced a payoff no one imagined just a few years ago — a huge increase in loan defaults, a soaring number of foreclosures and a plunge in bank profits. …
Bank Secrecy Act: Federal Agencies Should Take Action to Further Improve Coordination and Information-Sharing Efforts, GAO-09-227, February 12, 2009 Emergency Management: Actions to Implement Select Provisions of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, GAO-09-433T, March 17, 2009 Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to More Accurately Capture and Report the Costs of Operation Iraqi Freedom …
“The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle’s oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation’s largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.”
Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism: “The State of the News Media 2009 is the sixth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism. Our goals are to take stock of the revolution occurring in how Americans get information and provide a resource for citizens, journalists and researchers …
New York Times: Times Are Tough, and Libraries Are Thriving “People are flocking to libraries after forsaking Barnes & Noble or ditching their HBO service and subscriptions to Netflix, library officials said, because libraries books, DVDs and CDs have a significant advantage: They are free. Some people are showing up at libraries for the first …
Two articles focused on significant changes impacting newspapers and professional journalists: Clay Shirky – Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: “Society doesnt need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. Thats been a fine accident to …
