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New Hazlett Theater names new executive director.

Joseph-Beth Booksellers files for bankruptcy

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Joseph-Beth Booksellers files for bankruptcy.

Is this more evidence of a shift away from the printed word or just another example of a company that grew too far, too fast?

Bosses Overestimate Their Management Skills – WSJ.com

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Bosses Overestimate Their Management Skills is – WSJ.com.

Associated Press — ND president: School responsible in student death

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ND president: School responsible in student death
By TOM COYNE
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The president of the University of Notre Dame sent an e-mail to students, faculty, staff and alumni Friday saying that the school is responsible for a student videographer’s death because it failed to protect him. “Declan Sullivan was entrusted to our care, and we failed to keep him safe,” the…

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Sign of the Times

I was driving past the local unemployment office yesterday and caught a glimpse of something that I nearly ignored. There in the parking lot was a man, maybe fortyish, in “dress down” clothing, getting into a late model BMW coupe. This wasn’t a 3-Series Beemer; this was a large sports cars that was clearly quite expensive. It took me a moment to process the visual contradiction, but then it hit me. This fellow may very well have been filing for unemployment, and getting to the office in an obvious symbol of his former status. I wonder how long he’ll be able to keep that awesome set of wheels?

I have no intention of making light of his apparent troubles. While it may seem easy to ridicule a successful person’s financial plight, I know from experience that the trip down that slide is painful regardless of where you start from. The recession has truly hit every quarter of American society (much the way the Great Depression did) and no one is immune. So while our age of conspicuous consumption may have gone the way of the dinosaurs, our days of resetting our personal and professional expectations may have only just begun.

Jeff Canter

President

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Sad to see, but should we have expected it?

http://m2.post-gazette.com/Article.aspx?itemid=1100772

Great message about leadership

From Harvard Business Review:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8298

What’s the Narrative About Your Leadership? – Tom Davenport – Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/davenport/2010/10/whats_the_narrative_about_your.html?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-leadership-_-leadership110310&referral=00206&utm_source=newsletter_leadership&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=leadership110310

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Half-a**ed Accountability

This guy gets the prize for being the biggest moron trying to behave accountably. Read the article and the title of this post will make sense.

http://us.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=23848&external=513224.proteus.fma

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