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November 6, 2009 – Wall Street Journal – USA Q: I am looking for a full-time job that uses my writing, people and information-gathering talents from 25 years as a Los Angeles Times staff writer. My concern, validated by the coach at the retraining corporation, is that I am over 40. Th...

November 6, 2009 – Blast.com Ewan McGregor gets his meatiest role in years as Bob Wilton, the journalist looking for a story about the New Earth Army. McGregor drives the film. Unfortunately the character feels completely misconceived. ...

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November 6, 2009 – CBS News – New York, NY, US As health care reform heads into the next phase, Congress will miss the boat if it ends up perpetuating a system that reacts to illness rather than preventing it. Ch...

November 5, 2009 – Ledger-Enquirer – Columbus, GA, US Mark Fryer knows what it takes to get you hired. After all, he has spent more than three decades helping companies find qualified employees. Fo...

November 4, 2009 – Computer World – Framingham, MA, US Most people think of Peter Drucker as a business visionary, and for good reason. Dr...

November 3, 2009 – Centre Daily Times – State College, PA, US “I need to get organized. I need someone to teach me how,” she said. “I need to find out the purpose of my life. I just don’t seem to have a purpose anymore.” Barker’s tale is too familiar in today’s workplace. She spent almost...

November 3, 2009 – The Olympian – Olympia, WA, US Question: A few months after I became a supervisor, my manager “wrote me up” because of conflicts with my employees. These people used to be my peers, and they were upset when I was promoted. Since ...

November 3, 2009 – WHAS-TV – Louisville, KY, US He’s helped embattled players like Michael Vick find their path in life and now he’s here in Kentuckiana helping those at risk. Super ...

November 3, 2009 – Stamford Plus – Stamford, CT, US As difficult as divorce is, there are highly successful and proven methods for letting go and moving on after a divorce. There is much needless suffering that can be eased and circumvented. Th...

November 3, 2009 – The New Zealand Herald – Auckland, NZ Fifty-six years of failure has the tendency to affect self-belief and perhaps this is what Warren Gatland had in mind when employing a motivational expert to work with his internationals. Wa...

November 2, 2009 – Irish Independent – Dublin, Ireland In May of this year, research showed that two thirds of job-hunters were considering a career change, as they couldn’t find work in their chosen field. So w...

November 2, 2009 – The New York Times – New York, NY, US As questions go, it was short and to the point: “If you are so smart, why aren’t you rich?” That challenge, splashed across her daughter’s T-shirt, inspired Una Ryan to leave a medical research career, developing vaccines, to start her o...

November 1, 2009 – Star-Ledger – Newark, NJ, USA A senior executive from Morristown, working in the pharmaceutical industry, was surprised when, at the first break during her first executive committee meeting with the all male top management team, all the men went outside and started throwing aro...