Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Michael G. Winston, a former executive responsible for leadership development at the Countrywide Financial Corporation, spent three years in a legal battle against Countrywide, the once-mighty mortgage giant, and its current owner, Bank of America, contending that he was punished and pushed out for not toeing the company line. On Feb. 4, he won: a jury in California awarded him $3.8 million in damages.

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Power Banking Document Report 112

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the last few years, insights from neuroscience have begun to answer that question. New behaviors can be put in place, but only by reframing attitudes that are so entrenched that they are almost literally embedded in the physical pathways of employees’ neurons. These beliefs have been reinforced over the years through everyday routines and hundreds of workplace conversations.

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Magazine Reference Operations Process 108

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As the Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali discovered in January, there is no surer route to political oblivion than to deny people access to affordable food. On Dec. 17, after Tunisian police assaulted a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi and seized his produce cart because, according to his family, he couldn't afford to pay bribes, the 26-year-old Bouazizi doused himself with accelerant and lit a match.

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Long-term Politics Marketing Bond 95

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some years ago, a former chief justice of the Michigan supreme court, Thomas Brennan, sent a questionnaire to a hundred or so of his fellow lawyers, asking them to rank a list of ten law schools in order of quality. "They included a good sample of the big names. Harvard. Yale. University of Michigan. And some lesser-known schools. John Marshall. Thomas Cooley," Brennan wrote.

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Reputation Sample Brand Education 90

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Increasing problems posed by climate change, ecological disruptions, diminishing resources (like water and oil), population growth, hunger and poverty are rapidly reaching a point where dramatic worldwide changes in priorities are required to forestall global chaos. Recognition of human values and inclinations are now prevalent among young educated people in the Middle East (20 to 30 percent of the population)--who are beginning to achieve a broad support base toward reaching a critical mass as

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Restructuring Cooper Globalization Trends 84