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Can managers bully employees? Ask HR

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Johnny C. Taylor Jr., a human resources expert, is tackling your questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional society. The questions are submitted by readers, and Taylor's answers below have been edited for length and clarity...

6 Take-Aways On Leadership From Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 04:26:21 -0400

A shareholders' letter and a memo are offering readers some interesting insight on the leadership styles of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. On Wednesday, Amazon's CEO released his annual letter to shareholders, which included the first details of Amazon Prime's membership figures (topping 100 million). Meanwhile...

What every [Executive] should know about encryption

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:00:29 -0400

if you've been following the news lately, you've heard the buzz about the NSA's PRISM data surveillance programs. Cloud service providers, or CSPs, like Amazon, Microsoft and Google allegedly installed equipment to capture data, in some cases, even bypassing their own encryption. If your organization leverages the public cloud, which is very likely, you need to have a basic understanding of how encryption works, and more specifically, key management. Security technology and process doesn't work the same once you...

Study: Sea-level Rise Threatens 1,400 U.S. Cities

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:25:23 -0400

A rise in sea levels threatens the viability of more than 1,400 cities and towns, including Miami, Virginia Beach and Jacksonville, unless there are deep cuts in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, says an analysis out Monday. Prior emissions have already locked in 4 feet of future sea-level rise that will submerge parts of 316 municipalities, but the timing is unclear and could take hundreds of years, according to the paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If global warming continues at its current rate...