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People who want to work more efficiently should actually work less, according to the findings of a study released by the Harvard Business Review. Leslie A. Perlow, a professor of leadership at the Business School and the lead author on the study, worked closely with several offices of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) over the course of four years. The researchers mandated “predictable time off” for employees to determine whether or not change was possible in the “always-on” culture of the American workplace. Though Perlow said...
...union really can't be blamed for pushing for fabulous wages and lush benefits for its members - that game required two players, and the automakers knew only how to say yes. But the union leadership's fatal mistake was insisting that workers with comparable skills and comparable seniority be paid comparable wages, irrespective of who employed them. If a machinist at a prosperous GM deserved $25 an hour, so did a machinist who worked for a barely profitable Chrysler or for a just-holding-its-own supplier plant that made axles or wheels or windshield wipers...
...than they did a few months ago. The other Arab states in the region, especially Saudi Arabia, have refused to provide diplomatic incentives to nudge the Israelis toward peace, even though a Sunni-Israeli alliance seems the most rational way to confront the Iranian nuclear threat. Meanwhile, the Iranian leadership, stung by the embarrassment of the rigged elections and the regime's subsequent violence against its own people, seems unlikely to concede very much when formal talks begin about Iran's potential weaponization of the uranium it is now enriching. (See pictures of Obama in Saudi Arabia...
...economy and reduce its carbon intensity - the amount of economic value it gets per unit of power - by a "notable margin." Many of those domestic goals had already been announced, but the tone of Hu's speech made an impact on his audience. "I think China has provided impressive leadership," said Al Gore after Hu's talk. (See pictures of Beijing's attempt to clean...
...sense of how far the Chinese leadership has come on the issue of climate change in a relatively short period, consider a conference held two years ago on the tropical island of Hainan, where, every year, China invites the high and mighty from around the world to address the weighty issues of the day at a plush resort. The theme of the conference was "Green China," and if there was a single underlying idea, it was that China, having just become the world's largest emitter of CO2 gases, was going to jump wholeheartedly on the global bandwagon to combat...