Archive for January 22nd, 2012
Management Tip of the Day: Performance review blues?
BOSTON | Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:20pm EST BOSTON (Reuters) – It’s performance review season, and you know the drill. Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. There has to be a better way, says Harvard Business Review. [...]
Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Dallas/Fort Worth
By Marice Richter DALLAS | Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:02pm EST DALLAS (Reuters) – Got 48 hours to spend in Dallas-Fort Worth? There is plenty to see and do in this metropolitan area featuring two cities with distinctly different vibes. Rich in Texas heritage, the DFW area is the place to sample the full gamut [...]
Power of Europe’s boardrooms captured in new book
By Liza Foreman LOS ANGELES | Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:38am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe’s leading [...]
Putin’s plan for former Moscow hotel site: a park
MOSCOW | Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:47am EST MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a new plan for a huge central Moscow lot that has been vacant since a sprawling Soviet-era hotel was razed: a park. Several ideas have been hatched for the prime piece of real estate off Red Square since [...]
UK Muslims convicted in landmark gay hatred case
LONDON | Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:50am EST LONDON (Reuters) – Three British Muslim men were found guilty on Friday of stirring up hatred by distributing leaflets calling for the death of homosexuals in what prosecutors said was a landmark case. The men, from Derby, had posted and handed out pamphlets near their local mosque [...]
