Only the present is real

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life, which a man can lose, is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses. 
This means that the longest life and the shortest amount to the [...]

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The vital role of nonprofits in delivering Federal services

On July 24, 2007, the General Accountability Office (GAO) released a study including public testimony on the vital role that nonprofits are playing in the delivery of Federal services. The following in the introduction to the report.
U.S. nonprofit organizations have a significant role both in the economy as a whole and as [...]

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Why people leave jobs?

Staff turnover for any organization has a tremendous cost. According to Leigh Branham in The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: How to recognize the subtle signs and act before it’s too late, the top seven reasons why people leave jobs are:

Reason #1: The job or workplace was not as expected.
Reason #2: The mismatch between job [...]

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Spanish Prime Minister comments on same-sex marriage equality

On June 29, 2005, Spain became the fourth nation in the world to offer legal marriage to same-sex couples. The law states: “Matrimony shall have the same requirements and effects regardless of whether the persons involved are of the same or different sex.”
Before Parliament voted to approve this bill, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero [...]

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Editorial: The great pumpkin goes to Washington

I don’t care a fig about our next president’s personal religious views. The candidate can worship the Great Pumpkin, for all I care, as long as he or she doesn’t assume that the rest of us do too, and that the Great Pumpkin told him to do things such as, to take a case at [...]

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Powerful questions

Peter Drucker, the 20th century management guru, believed that the seeds to successful organizations all started by answering five powerful questions. These questions address the ways an organization intends to create value for its customers and is therefore applicable to all organizations, not just businesses. It requires answering the following:

What is our [...]

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Ten myths about business ethics

Business ethics in the workplace is about prioritizing moral values for the workplace and ensuring behaviors are aligned with those values — it’s values management. Yet, myths abound about business ethics. Some of these myths arise from general confusion about the notion of ethics. Other myths arise from narrow or simplistic views of ethical dilemmas. [...]

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