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...people who left Deloitte left to do something they could have done with us, but we made it difficult for them to transition." So Smith, who is now in charge of recruiting and retaining Generation Y as national director of next-generation initiatives, created programs at Deloitte that focus on helping people figure out their next career move. Smith is betting that in many cases, the best place for a restless young person is simply another spot in Deloitte. This saves the company the $150,000 cost of losing an employee--not to mention the stress for employees of changing...
...head rally in Minneapolis on June 29, which has sold 3,000 tickets. He has held an online raffle in which those who gave at least $5 could win a chance to be part of a dinner for five with Obama. Other candidates are now beginning to focus more on small donors and new ways of reaching them. Clinton made her first foray into viral fund raising a few weeks ago with the launch of Club 44, which seeks to build low-dollar fund-raising networks of young women excited at the prospect that the 44th President...
Terrorists can be sophisticated failures. They can also be amateurish murderers. The only sensible option is to focus on reducing their ability to inflict mass casualties, however they might do it. In other words, with our limited resources, it's more important right now to protect Times Square from an old-school fertilizer bombing, a relatively easy attack that could kill thousands, than to try to prevent an airplane from being taken down by liquid explosives...
...terrorists are now freelancers and self-starters, which means that while we're going to see more duds like the car-bomb attacks, we are also likely to see a lot more attempts, period. The key is to think in a more nuanced way about the threat rather than focus exclusively on young men from the Middle East or homegrown radicals. The more that authorities target a particular group, the more terrorist groups will recruit outside that category...
...best way to protect civilians from terrorist attacks is to prevent them from being planned. One goal is not separate from the other. But governments still tend to focus much of their time and money on our last lines of defense--explosives sniffers at airports and haz-mat suits for firefighters. That's the equivalent of building a really deep castle moat and waiting for the invaders to arrive. "Unless you can arrest [terrorists] before they get to execution stage, your chances of averting bloodshed and death come down to luck," says a French former counterterrorism official...