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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

Sales and Marketing Management

If that all sounds soft and fuzzy, it’s because soft and fuzzy works, says Bill Eckstrom, president of EcSell Institute, a business management consultancy based in Lincoln, Nebraska. They can be a huge drain on company morale as their “do the bare minimum” attitude influences their coworkers.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington.