In This Issue
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CommentaryThe Beat the Copenhagen Clock Game
U.S. Democrats in the White House and Congress are in an unseemly race to get something, anything, enacted into law before the December climate gab fest in Copenhagen. But it’s a fools’ game and unlikely to succeed.
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Commentary
Is Learning to Regulate Like Learning to Cook?
What’s to learn about regulation from Julia Child and Michael Pollan, gurus of the food world? Plenty, says Scott Hempling of the National Regulatory Research Institute.
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Commentary
Belt Out Your Best and Overcome Your Doubts
Don’t let your fears of inadequacy limit your ability to succeed in your life and career.
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Legal & Regulatory
TREND: Coal in a Hole
While pundits opine that the U.S. economy is in recovery, that doesn’t show up in the world of coal-fired electric power plants (perhaps lagging economic indicators). For proof, see these recent stories.
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Commentary
Pay Attention to the Health Care Debate: It Can Restructure Your Company
The ongoing congressional debate over national health care policy, regardless of the outcome, has important implications for employers who today provide health benefits to their employees. Company management must pay close attention to Washington discussions of health care and to the implications for their companies of what is eventually adopted.
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HR
Social Media in the Workforce: Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweedly-Deet
Social media have emerged as an important force in the workplace, both as new ways of doing business and as challenges to organization management. Among those challenges is defining acceptable employee behavior on and off the job.
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Legal & Regulatory
Talking Smart Grid Talk
What is the smart grid all about? A new book—a dictionary—attempts to define and demystify the jargon and bafflegab surrounding the buzzing smart grid. It’s a somewhat flawed but worthwhile first attempt at unraveling the often bizarre and sometimes baloney-filled smart grid nomenclature.
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Legal & Regulatory
Pushmepullyou: Disputes and Discussions on Grid Politics
While industry interests were trying to get on board the smart grid gravy train last fall in Washington, D.C., in rural West Virginia folks were dealing with the force of a political locomotive pushing a high-voltage interstate grid, with property owners opposed and labor in favor.
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HR
Today, Time Management Knows No Boundaries
It’s no longer a 9-to-5 world. Management gurus Peter Stark and Jane Flaherty offer advice on how to manage time in today’s multi-tasking environment.
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Legal & RegulatoryThe Natural Gas Glut and the Doctrine According to Hefner
Natural gas is back, says gas guru Bobby Hefner, and in a big way. New technologies, new discoveries, low prices, and new optimism characterize a natural gas industry that just three years ago was bemoaning its future and looking to foreign LNG imports as the industry’s salvation. Today, the gloom is gone, and the gas folks are clicking their gaseous heels in glee.