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In three years at his current job, "my boss has never talked to me about what job I might do next, or encouraged me to learn anything new," he says. No manager, of course, has time for constant hand-holding, but that isn't what is required to nurture future managers. The most important need is to identify which subordinates want to advance and keep them growing by rotating them through jobs -- trusting that if they've done one thing well, they'll be able to learn something entirely new. Bob Zito, communications chief, Bristol-Myers Squibb, encourages the 250 employees he supervises to raise their hands when openings occur and change jobs frequently to get more experience. He recently had an employee from Singapore spend several months at the company's New Jersey office and suggested that an employee in a corporate staff position swap jobs with someone who had spent several years working in the pharmaceutical business.
Legislature seeks ways of fixing state’s deteriorating prisons
But how much can be accomplished before lawmakers adjourn in May and whether they have the political will to spend millions of tax dollars to improve state prisons remain unanswered."It's taken years and years to get us in this situation. It'll take time to get us out," said Sen. Owen Laughlin, R-Woodward, Republican floor leader."We're going to have to put some dollars into corrections. We have some facilities that are woefully inadequate and, in fact, dangerous."Public safety a priorityLaughlin and other lawmakers said public safety is the key issue in the upcoming prison debate. Underfunding and understaffing puts the public as well as correctional officers and inmates at risk."We have to equip them with the tools, the manpower they have to have to perform their mission," said Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, chairman of House Judiciary and Public Safety Committee."The number one job of government has got to be keeping the thugs off the street," Laughlin said.Lawmakers said they will be guided by the findings of a comprehensive performance audit of state prisons made public earlier this month."Our leaders in the Department of Corrections have worked and are working with all parties involved to come up with a bipartisan solution," Jackson said.The audit said Oklahoma prisons are antiquated and underfunded.
Fresh blow for Salmond over Trump affair
When you were in New York recently, did you talk to Donald Trump at a dinner you both attended and, if so, did you talk about this development?Mr Salmond: "I spoke to Donald Trump but it was a meeting of Scottish Development International, with many businesses present. "There were clearly no discussions about (a] specific development, it was about Scotland and development strategy."I spoke to Mr Trump, but I didn't speak about this development."If he offered you a membership of this golf course, would you take it?Mr Salmond: "I would be duty- bound under the terms of the ministerial code to pay for any membership I took for any golf club, and I am quite certain membership of many golf clubs in Scotland might strain my means."Do you believe this development will now go ahead or do you believe it has had it? Mr Salmond: "We will have to let events take their course.
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Northern U.S. braces for deep freeze
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Northern U.S. Midwest states and New England states were digging out from heavy snowfall Tuesday as a sub-zero cold front bore down on northern Plains states.
Forecasters said temperatures during the day in the northern Plains could plunge by as much as 30 degrees, with gusty winds making it feel much colder, AccuWeather.com reported.
To the south, a storm was developing over the Gulf of Mexico that was expected to move north and send much-needed rain to southeastern states, the report said. As the system moves north into colder air, it was expected to dump another major snowfall on Northeastern states, still digging out from heavy snow on Sunday and Monday.
Monday, Peterboro, N.H., reported 12.5 inches of snow, while Cornish, Maine, reported 12.3 inches.
Perth-bound Millar a Morton outcast
ST JOHNSTONE-bound Chris Millar has been told he will never play for Morton again after agreeing to sign a pre-contract deal with the Perth club. The experienced midfielder informed the Greenock club yesterday of his intention to move to McDiarmid Park once his Cappielow contract expires in the summer. He has been left out of the Ton squad for todays visit to Partick Thistle and manager Jim McInally confirmed, Chris has informed us of his decision and that the deal is more or less done and dusted. Perhaps he will say that he has not yet got an offer from us for next season, but we had told him that we had arranged a meeting with his agent for January. As far as we are concerned he will not play for us again. We ask supporters to come along and pay their money to watch us and it is only fair that they know that they are watching players who are committed to the club.
Severely disabled don't have to pay extra airfare
Maintenance is way down as events show. Passenger service is non existent. Crews are cut back to the max and the passengers are packed in to increase the profit. Blame the investors and the airlines, not the passengers because at the end of the day the users pay for it all. .
Gunman Planned to Kill More, Officials Say
I saw him coming through the doors, and I took cover, and I waited for him to get closer," Assam told reporters. "I came out of cover, I identified myself and engaged him and took him down," she said. Assam, a member of the New Life Church, said that although she was outgunned and physically weak from three days of fasting, "God was with me. . . . God made me strong." Police said Murray, who died in the shooting, was the son of a Denver neurologist. He had been associated with the missionary training center that was his first target. They said forensic evidence confirmed Monday that he was the previously unidentified gunman who opened fire on young staffers of the Youth With a Mission organization in Arvada, just outside Denver, at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday after apparently being refused permission to stay overnight in a dormitory there.
State's jobless rate up as workers flee
Michigan's unemployment rate in 2007 hit its highest level in 14 years, losing a total of 90,000 jobs as the state draws near to what everyone hopes is the bottom of a very deep hole. Worse than jobs disappearing is the fact that tens of thousands of residents are, too. A total of 40,000 people vanished from the state's labor force -- signs that the state's economy has been weak for so long that many potential workers simply quit the state to try their economic luck elsewhere. The preliminary 2007 average jobless rate for Michigan was 7.2 percent, the highest since 1993 when the annual rate hit 7.4 percent, according to data released Wednesday by the state Dept. of Labor & Economic Growth. .
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