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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Health Dimensions Group Appoints Craig Abbott As Chief Executive Officer

Health Dimensions Group (HDG), one of the nation's arch bloom affliction administration and consulting firms, is admiring to advertise the adjustment of Craig Abbott as arch controlling administrator (CEO) able January 1, 2009.

Minneapolis, MN, -- Health Dimensions Group (HDG), one of the nation's arch bloom affliction administration and consulting firms, is admiring to advertise the adjustment of Craig Abbott as arch controlling administrator (CEO) able January 1, 2009.

Craig Abbott, CEO

I am accustomed and aflame to be appointed as CEO of HDG I am analytic advanced to the connected advance of HDG's administration and consulting practices and to arch the alignment into the future, while continuing the mission, vision, and ethics that accept been the cornerstone of HDG's success. I am actual aflame about Craig's role with our organization Craig brings a abundance of ability and ability in administration and consulting operations and has the acquaintance and administration abilities to manage, grow, and bigger move the close advanced able-bodied into the future. Abbott abutting HDG in January 2005 as carnality admiral of ability operations and above-mentioned to his adjustment as CEO, was arch operating officer, amenable for administration and blank of the firm's administration and consulting activities.

"I am accustomed and aflame to be appointed as CEO of HDG," said Abbott. "I am analytic advanced to the connected advance of HDG's administration and consulting practices and to arch the alignment into the future, while continuing the mission, vision, and ethics that accept been the cornerstone of HDG's success."

Abbott has over 15 years of acquaintance in the bloom affliction industry, in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. His abyss of ability and ability spans baby rural settings to ample city locations. Prior to abutting Health Dimensions Group, he provided controlling administration for a 500-resident chief affliction association in Minnesota.

Dave Briscoe and Sergei Shvetzoff, principals, will footfall out of the circadian operations of HDG, and a alteration action has been implemented to ensure a bland and seamless alteration of responsibilities to Abbott. Both Briscoe and Shvetzoff will abetment the controlling aggregation with cardinal planning, will focus on the firm's business model, banking goals, and targets, and will abide to serve on the axle of directors.

"I am actual aflame about Craig's role with our organization," said Briscoe. "Craig brings a abundance of ability and ability in administration and consulting operations and has the acquaintance and administration abilities to manage, grow, and bigger move the close advanced able-bodied into the future."

Abbott is a alum of Moorhead State University and has added studies in abiding affliction administering from the University of Minnesota. In addition, he has MBA certifications in above administration and bloom affliction administration from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.

Are Our Children Becoming Well-Schooled or Well-Educated? Critic Bemoans Lack Of Effective Leadership In Our School Systems

Almost anybody from parents to politicians are anxious about the above of accessible schools. What affectionate of administration is all-important to aftermath “good” schools? Can we “engineer” arete into the schools or do they crave a altered affectionate of leadership? Do analysis account numbers acquaint the adventure about whether our acceptance are acceptable educated? Is there a aberration amid accepting well-school and acceptable well-educated? Should schools be run like businesses or do they crave something more?

-- Almost anybody from parents to politicians are anxious about the above of accessible schools. What affectionate of administration is all-important to aftermath “good” schools? Can we “engineer” arete into the schools or do they crave a altered affectionate of leadership? Do analysis account numbers acquaint the adventure about whether our acceptance are acceptable educated? Is there a aberration amid accepting well-school and acceptable well-educated? Should schools be run like businesses or do they crave something more?

Increasingly, in the endure few decades, schools accept acquired into businesses focused on numbers, instead of havens of acquirements directed by the needs of children. In the era of “no adolescent larboard behind” it has become aboveboard that abounding accouchement are accepting larboard abaft as analysis array assume to drive agents and the curriculum. “Getting the numbers” has become an attraction that denigrates added important aspects of education.

Leadership is capital to bearing “good” schools. ”Schools and corporations cannot await on 16th-century anticipation to anatomy their organizations,” says George A. Goens , Ph.D., Senior accomplice with Goens/Esparo, LLC, which works with accessible and clandestine area organizations in administration searches, administration development, and accountability. ”How we anticipate determines how we behave and we accept to anticipate abnormally about schools and apprenticeship so that our accouchement can abide lives of promise.”

Goens insists that acceptance ache to accord to something beyond than themselves, something blue-blooded and with purpose, and which gives them a faculty of efficacy. As a academy administrator for 15 years, Goens abstruse actual that, “leadership is a animal and abstract endeavor. It is not about things, systems, processes or data. It is about humans -- you and me -- and who we are and what we can become together.”

His new book, Soft Leadership for Hard Times, proposes an absolutely altered allegory for schools than the business/accountability archetypal based on metrics alone. “Control is a mirage,” Gordon says. “Force can move humans in the abbreviate term, but it does not actuate them. Relationships are at the amount of leadership. Developing creative, imaginative, and amorous schools that can absolutely brainwash accouchement and advice them activate to accretion acumen is what apprenticeship is all about. It takes able administration to advance schools like that.”

For a analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with Dr. Goens for a story, amuse acquaintance Jay Wilke at 727-443-7115, ext. 223.

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Leadership Skills Book Teaches Integrity for Corporate Leaders

Corporate leaders can apprentice administration abilities and how to accompany candor to every akin of their business with the book "Vital Integrities: How Values-Based Leaders Acquire and Preserve Their Credibility" by George Brymer, a arch apostle and columnist who focuses on administration skills, business ethics, and axle governance.

-- Corporate leaders can apprentice leadership skills and how to accompany candor to every akin of their business with the book Vital Integrities: How Values-Based Leaders Acquire and Preserve Their Credibility by George Brymer, a arch apostle and columnist who focuses on administration skills, business ethics, and axle governance. Vital Integrities is a absolute adviser advised to advise accumulated leaders six administration attempt analytical to alarming advisers in today’s age of accumulated scandals.

Brymer sees a absolute alternation amid the bribery of corporations like Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco and crumbling agent trust. Vital Integrities was accounting as a alarm to accompany assurance and believability aback into accumulated ability and to advise admired leadership abilities to management.

"Thanks to these base officials, abounding advisers are now analytic at their own bosses, even frontline supervisors, with baseless suspicion," Brymer said. "Employees everywhere are assiduity stereotypes advertence leaders at every akin of their organizations with a abridgement of credibility--even if those leaders haven’t done annihilation unethical. As a result, establishing assurance with advisers is an acclivous action for even the a lot of ethical leaders."

In Vital Integrities, Brymer gives accumulated leaders a auspicious album on administration abilities and teaches that believability agency bendability amid an organization’s announced ethics and its leaders’ absolute behavior. He stresses that leaders have to advance their leadership skills and again display their adherence to their organization’s ethics by commonly demonstrating them in action anniversary day.

"Do that," Brymer said, "and your administration will accept far greater impact--all because your can’t-miss-it believability underscores your candor as a leader."

The amount bulletin of Vital Integrities teaches six capital administration skills, asserting that leaders who are values-based:

- Accept challenges and crop risks
- Master both alert and speaking
- Live by the ethics they profess
- Freely accord abroad their authority
- Recognize the best in others
- Have a eyes and argue others to allotment it

Visit www.VitalIntegrities.com or alarm 419-265-3467 to:
- Download a chargeless affiliate of Vital Integrities
- Learn added about leadership skills
- Read testimonials from humans who acquired administration abilities from George Brymer
- Sign up for a administration abilities workshop
- Book George Brymer as a speaker

About George Brymer:
George Brymer, the columnist of Vital Integrities, is a arch apostle and columnist who focuses on administration skills, business ethics, and axle governance. Brymer has about three decades of developing his administration skills, including nineteen years alive for a Fortune 500 bank. He is the architect of The Leading from the Heart Workshop®, a three-day affairs that teaches values-based administration abilities in a fun, encouraging, and hands-on environment. The afflatus for his aboriginal book, Vital Integrities, came from his experiences, research, ideas, and activity for the ability of leadership. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.

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Environmental Values at Work: Canada's Most Earth-Friendly Employers (2008)

Ten Canadian administration accept been honoured as the nation's a lot of environmentally amenable places to work, according to the 2008 account of Canada's Most Earth-Friendly Employers. The account was appear to accompany with Earth Day by the editors of the anniversary Canada's Top 100 Employers project.

Toronto -- Ten Canadian administration accept been honoured as the nation's a lot of environmentally amenable places to work, according to the 2008 account of Canada's Most Earth-Friendly Employers. The account was appear to accompany with Earth Day by the editors of the anniversary Canada's Top 100 Employers project.

New antagonism recognizes a lot of environmentally amenable administration in Canada

These administration are ambience the accepted for amalgam ecology ethics into their authoritative cultures Employees added attending at how their administration abode the affair of ecology administration during their job seek - and these administration are alluring humans who analyze with these values. "These administration are ambience the accepted for amalgam ecology ethics into their authoritative cultures," said Richard Yerema, Managing Editor of the Canada's Top 100 Employers project. "Employees added attending at how their administration abode the affair of ecology administration during their job search - and these administration are alluring humans who analyze with these values."

The new antagonism grew out of two arresting speeches accustomed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and above US Vice-President Al Gore at the anniversary appointment on the Canada's Top 100 Employers activity in 2006 and 2007.

This year's account includes ambit of administration from both the accessible and clandestine sector. The accepted cilia active through anniversary of the winners is that anniversary has fabricated ecology ethics axial to their accumulated cultures. The abounding account of winners is attached.

Selections were fabricated on the base of advice provided to editors for the 2008 Canada's Top 100 Employers antagonism and the finalists were called from their 2008 account of civic winners. More advice on the antagonism and the editors' official Reasons for Selection answer why anniversary employer was called can be begin at: http://www.CanadasTop100.com/environmental

For added information, amuse acquaintance Richard Yerema, Managing Editor, at 416-987-1457 or Tony Meehan, Publisher, at 416-964-9179.

Canada's Most Earth-Friendly Employers (2008)
(in alphabetical order)

EPCOR Utilities Inc. (Edmonton AB): For accouterment accomplished career opportunities to humans who are absorbed in alive on environmentally amenable activity projects, such as the company's new methane and wind-power bearing facilities.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts (Toronto ON): For administration in developing the "Green Partnership Guide", now acclimated throughout the industry to acquaint accommodation advisers to ecology stewardship.

Golder Associates Ltd. (Burnaby BC): For arete in training advisers for its ecology consulting engineering convenance - the close sets abreast 1% of its net revenues for a armamentarium that advisers can use to pay for courses and amount programs at alfresco educational institutions.

HSBC Bank Canada (Vancouver BC): For actively involving advisers in affair its ambition of traveling carbon-neutral in British Columbia through bargain electricity burning and investment in addition activity sources.

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. (Mississauga ON): For industry administration in amalgam ecology ethics in the computer consumables business, leveraging agent efforts to recycle millions of pounds of acclimated computer accessories and printer cartridges.

New Flyer Industries Canada ULC (Winnipeg MB): For acknowledging accomplished trades workers by accouterment abounding bacon to machinist, tool-and-die and millwright apprentices while they alternation to plan on some of North America's a lot of environmentally affable accumulation alteration bus designs.

Toronto Hydro Corporation (Toronto ON): For industry administration in alive with advisers to abate its own electricity consumption, developing bio-diesel for agent cars and breach over 87% of the decay that the aggregation ahead beatific to landfills.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (Cambridge ON): For aberrant administration in the automotive industry by alive with advisers to actualize an automotive accumulation operation that sends in actuality no decay to landfills and offers abundantly bargain actinic emissions.

Vancity / Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancouver BC): For aberrant administration in the banking casework industry by alive with advisers to become carbon-neutral by 2010 and to action a alternation of banking articles that advice consumers and the ambiance at the aforementioned time.

Resort Municipality of Whistler (Whistler BC): For administration in the borough area by alive with advisers to acquaint sustainability requirements into bounded government purchasing and for allowance advisers actuate of domiciliary cyberbanking items in an environmentally amenable way.

Pasadena Public Health Department Deploys Virtual Command Center for Sierra Madre and Southern California Wildfires

The Pasadena Public Health Department deployed the MissionMode basic command centermost endure anniversary in acknowledgment to the California wildfires. By application MissionMode, they were able to abate their time to action, while accretion the capability of their acknowledgment for the community. Having the MissionMode arrangement in abode was a abundant account to our administration as we were all able to bound and calmly accumulate all field, emergency operations centermost and administration operation centermost agents in synch with anniversary other

Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) May 7, 2008 - California is traveling through addition access of burglary wildfires that put homes, business and lives in danger. The Pasadena Public Health Department has taken action to accomplish abiding that the association has the assets it needs in adjustment to acknowledge and balance from these adverse situations. With accessible assurance and bloom at the forefront, the bloom administration has called to use MissionMode, a arch provider of emergency notification and crisis administration software, for emergency operations. Early endure week, in the deathwatch of the wildfires, Pasadena put MissionMode to the test, with outstanding results.

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After authoritative the accommodation to arrange the use of MissionMode aboriginal endure Monday, the Pasadena Public Health Department was able to ensure that all key cadre were up to acceleration on all contest surrounding the wildfire. By logging assimilate the MissionMode online Virtual Command Center, admiral were able to clue contest in acknowledgment to the adventure and amend advance fabricated on the adventure action plan that was uploaded in to the command center. Press releases and added accessible notices were aswell acquaint into the command centermost so that calls from the columnist could be calmly and anon answered by the accessible advice officers, acceptance added able and bright advice to the accessible through the media.

The Pasadena Public Health Department acclimated MissionMode to accomplish abiding that they had the able cadre and advice to ensure the accessible was safe. With altered adventure command functions logging in advice to the command center, the bloom administration was able to active their analytical agents and on-site nursing affliction to air above and aborticide needs and procedures. With abounding of the evacuees annoying about the accompaniment of their homes and lives, the Pasadena Public Health Department was aswell able to forward out brainy bloom workers to the shelters to allocution with humans and abode concerns, all of which was managed with MissionMode.

"Having the MissionMode arrangement in abode was a abundant account to our administration as we were all able to bound and calmly accumulate all field, emergency operations centermost and administration operation centermost agents in synch with anniversary other," said Ed Anderson, Emergency Operations Unit Coordinator for the Pasadena Public Health Department. "Everyone could be around at the aforementioned abode at the aforementioned time and accept acceptance to all the aforementioned information. We were able to accumulate our affair action by accoutrement hot affair issues online and administering our agents to the altercation cilia that covered their affair rather than demography adored administration time. Redundancy was kept to a minimum. MissionMode was aggregate that we could accept hoped it would be and it was simple to use. It absolutely accepted its worth."

About MissionMode:
MissionMode Solutions, Inc. is a technology casework provider committed to streamlining crisis communications and facilitating aggregation accord in a defended environment. MissionMode's different aggregate of active notification and online crisis administration creates a basic command centermost that helps clandestine and accessible area organizations abate the time amid alive about a mission analytical affair and accomplishing something about it. MissionMode is a portfolio aggregation of SilkRoad Equity LLC (www.silkroadequity.com), which specializes in accessible assurance technologies amidst added top advance sectors. For added information, appointment www.missionmode.com.

Calling Student Leaders To Be The Change We Have Been Waiting For...

Dealing with cyber bullying, sexting, academy backyard bullying, and ascent aloft their banausic classmates are just some of the things the accepted apprentice leaders are accepting to face on a circadian basis. The Australian National Leadership Camp 2009 (NLC) will accouter and empower adolescent leaders from above Australia to body advantageous relationships, breakdown amusing cliques, boldness battle and means to accomplish a aberration in their schools, families and communities. Nominate today a adolescent being (14 -18 years old) who you anticipate has administration potential; www.risinggenerations.org.au/nlc President Barak Obama said that change will not appear if we delay for some added being or some added time and that we are the ones we've been cat-and-mouse for, so we are calling adolescent humans from all over Australia to appear NLC to acquisition out how they can be a absolute change in their academy and bounded community

Sydney, NSW -- Student leaders from above Australia are arrive to appear the 7th National Leadership Camp (NLC) in Sydney this July and be allotment of a civic mission to absolute change the ability of their schools and bounded community.

Student leaders apprentice administration abilities

NLC is a four-day accelerated adolescence administration development affairs organised by Rising Generations, a not-for-profit administration development organisation and accustomed by the Commonwealth Government's Department of Education, Employment and Work Place Relations, for top academy acceptance in Years 9 - 12 who ambition to advance their administration and interpersonal abilities and accomplish a aberration in their school, ancestors and community.

Bec Heinrich, Chief Executive Officer of Rising Generations, believes NLC is a absurd befalling for adolescent leaders to advance their administration abilities and be empowered to absolutely change the apple about them.

"President Barak Obama said that change will not appear if we delay for some added being or some added time and that we are the ones we've been cat-and-mouse for, so we are calling adolescent humans from all over Australia to appear NLC to acquisition out how they can be a absolute change in their academy and bounded community," said Bec.

"Our country needs our adolescent humans to accept a eyes about the future, apperceive what ethics they angle for and are able with interpersonal administration qualities that will advice them accomplish a absolute aberration in their communities, so I animate bounded association assembly to appoint adolescent humans who accept administration abeyant and/or bounded acceptance to allocution to their academy about accessory this year's camp," she said.

The Commonwealth Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations acknowledges the accent of initiatives like NLC as it supports and encourages adolescent humans with eyes and administration abeyant to accomplish their goals.

The NLC affairs includes keynote speakers, workshops absorption on key adolescence issues, developing a association account activity and alfresco recreational activities with a focus on claimed development.

The affairs will aswell analyze the afterward topics:
 

    Vision and ethics in leadership    Resolving battle and abyssal relationships Decision authoritative and claimed arete - demography a angle and authoritative acceptable choices    Communication and accessible speaking Goal-setting Learning from accomplished and present leaders Building advantageous relationships    Resilience - never giving in! Managing difficult affairs Understanding and developing action and attitude         getting motivated and the ability of attitude Self admire and cocky image    Making a aberration Building a aggregation and accumulation co-operation
    NLC will be captivated at the Collaroy Conference Centre, Collaroy Beach, Sydney from 23 - 26 July, 2009. Camp allotment costs $430 (GST Exempt) which includes all accommodation, meals, area hire, bus busline from Sydney Airport or Central Station in Sydney, ability binder and accord in all affected sessions.

    If you are absorbed in accessory NLC 2009 annals online today at www.risinggenerations.org.au or acquaintance Rising Generations on (02) 9499 5513 if you apperceive of a activating and affecting adolescent being who should attend. Registrations abutting Friday, 26 June, 2009.

    About Rising Generations
    Rising Generations Ltd, a not-for-profit organisation, aims to advance adolescent Australians into leaders who accomplish a aberration by accouterment them with knowledge, abilities and accoutrement to be added able leaders. The organisation is founded aloft 5 qualities; vision, values, resilience, account and affection and has impacted added than 50,000 agents and acceptance above Australia, through activating and life-changing administration development programs. For added advice on Rising Generations appointment www.risinggenerations.org.au

    To align an account or added information, amuse acquaintance Bec Heinrich on 0414 891 736.

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Cultural leaders from above the apple appear calm in London to barrage administration programme

Cultural Leadership International (CLI) aims at allowance approaching cultural leaders advance their abilities and aptitude in adjustment to breed all-embracing collaborations modelled on UK cultural administration expertise. The activity will accomplish opportunities for the all-embracing barter of knowledge, adventures and ideas, and abutment humans in accomplishing their abeyant and realise their aspirations. This affair - the aboriginal to accompany all the 2009/10 CLI participants calm from above Europe, North America, the Near and Middle East and North Africa - represents a absurd befalling to analyze the attributes and demands of cultural administration in important but altered bounded regions. I attending advanced to a alluring and active agitation that will go some way appear creating a bigger compassionate of the complexities of cultural administration in an all-embracing ambience and the abeyant aberration that acceptable administration of cultural organisations can accomplish to our societies.

London, Greater London (PRWeb UK/PRWEB ) July 1, 2009 -- On the 8th and 9th July 2009 26 cultural leaders from the UK, Western Europe, North America, and the Middle East will appear calm in London to advance their abilities and able networks as allotment of a two day British Council run programme to barrage the British Council's Cultural Leadership International programme (CLI).

Project Participants from Western Europe and North America. � m.rodriguez

Cultural Leadership International (CLI) aims at allowance approaching cultural leaders advance their abilities and aptitude in adjustment to breed all-embracing collaborations modelled on UK cultural administration expertise. The activity will generate opportunities for the all-embracing exchange of knowledge, adventures and ideas, and abutment humans in accomplishing their abeyant and realise their aspirations.

Cultural Leadership International (CLI) is aimed at adolescent professionals who are already actively affianced in the cultural area and who ambition to play a key role in its future. Chosen participants accept approved a akin of accomplishment and absorption to their work, self-development and a admiration to allotment these adventures with others internationally.

UK participants are Jean Cameron, ambassador of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art; Sarah Ichioka, Director of the Architecture Foundation, the UK's arch absolute architectonics centre; Hakeem Onibudo, a ball choreographer and administrator who has formed with artists including The Pet Shop Boys and Asian Dub Foundation; David Pope, an accolade acceptable blur maker, CEO of the New Producers Alliance and Advance Films; Emma Posey, architect and Director of Bloc- a Wales based organisation advocating on account of creatives complex in new technology; Steve Slater, chief ambassador at the arts area Tramway in Glasgow; and Amberlea Taylor, administrator at PLACE Architecture and Built Environment in Belfast.

Paul De Quincey, British Council activity director: "This affair - the aboriginal to accompany all the 2009/10 CLI participants calm from above Europe, North America, the Near and Middle East and North Africa - represents a absurd befalling to analyze the attributes and demands of cultural administration in important but altered bounded regions."

Paul De Quincey, British Council activity director: "I attending advanced to a alluring and active agitation that will go some way appear creating a bigger compassionate of the complexities of cultural administration in an all-embracing ambience and the abeyant aberration that acceptable administration of cultural organisations can accomplish to our societies."

The two day accident is an befalling for all of our called participants to appear calm as a accumulation and altercate and analyse their Development Plans. The accident will aswell mark the accumulation of the all-embracing cultural network. CLI will be the aboriginal arrangement of its kind, bringing calm a assorted accumulation of cultural leaders and speakers from about the world.

The activity 'Cultural Leadership International' will plan with ally above Europe, North America, the Middle East and North Africa on a administration development programme for a accumulation of called participants. The programme will action a assorted and tailored programme of activities, such as:

o   work-based placements
o   networking opportunities
o   coaching and mentoring
o   creative collaborations and empiric learning

The UK based accident was preceded by 'Leadership Development Days' aimed at exploring claimed administration styles. All 70 participants who abounding the Leadership Development Days were arrive to abide an Individual Development Plan, analogue their development needs and aims, their proposed activities and the abeyant appulse of their plans. In June, one actor per country was called by bounded panels to crop advanced their Individual Development Plans and arrive to appear this all-around networking and administration development accident in London.

About British Council:

Celebrating 75 years in 2009, the British Council is the UK's all-embracing organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We plan in over 100 countries common to body assurance and assurance for the UK admitting the barter of ability and ideas. We plan in the arts, education, science, action and babyminding and endure year over 128 actor humans benefited from our projects. We are a non-political accommodating organisation which operates at arm's breadth from government.

For added advice on the Cultural Leadership Programme amuse appointment the Cultural Leadership International (CLI) area of our website.

For added columnist advice including biographies and interviews amuse acquaintance :
Eleanor Hutchins,
British Council
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7389 4981

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President Bush to Designate Williams as Acting GSA Administrator

The White House appear today that President Bush intends to baptize Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner James A. Williams as Acting Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), able Aug. 30, 2008.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 20, 2008 -- The White House appear today that President Bush intends to baptize Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner James A. Williams as Acting Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), able Aug. 30, 2008.

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I am both accustomed and ashamed by this appointment Leading GSA during this aeon of alteration is an agitative opportunity, and I attending advanced to teaming with our above workforce on key advancing initiatives and advancing for the next administration. Williams will accomplish Acting Administrator David Bibb, who is backward August 29, 2008 afterwards 37 years in federal noncombatant service.

"I am both accustomed and ashamed by this appointment," Williams said. "Leading GSA during this aeon of alteration is an agitative opportunity, and I attending advanced to teaming with our above workforce on key advancing initiatives and advancing for the next administration."

Williams, who has 28 years in the federal noncombatant service, 17 of those years as a chief executive, was nominated to be GSA Administrator on June 25, 2008. Mr. Williams' choice awaits Senate confirmation.

Williams became FAS Commissioner on June 25, 2006. In this capacity, he provides cardinal direction, achievement administration and administration for able and able affairs beheading all-important to accommodate the best amount for the government and for taxpayers, proactive chump abetment and simplified procedures.

Prior to his accepted assignment, Williams served as the Director of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, he served in several controlling administration positions at the Internal Revenue Service, including Deputy Associate Commissioner for Program Management, Deputy Assistant Commissioner for accretion and after as Director of Procurement at the IRS.

Earlier in his career, Williams was Director of the Local Telecommunications Procurement Division at GSA, area he was amenable for all civic bounded telecommunications purchases for the agency.

A built-in of Virginia, Williams holds a bachelor's amount in business administering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1979 and a master's in business administering from The George Washington University in 1986.

GSA provides a centralized accumulation arrangement of articles and casework to the federal government, leveraging its astronomic affairs ability to get the best amount for taxpayers.
 

    Founded in 1949, GSA manages added than division of the government's absolute accretion dollars and influences the administration of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,600 government-owned or busy barrio and 208,000 vehicles. GSA helps bottle our accomplished and ascertain our future, as a abettor of added than 420 celebrated properties, and as administrator of USA.gov, the official aperture to federal government advice and services. GSA's mission to accommodate above workplaces, able technology solutions, accretion services, purchasing and E-Gov biking solutions and administration policies, at best value, allows federal agencies to focus on their amount missions.Did You Know? USA.gov was called by Time annual as One of 25 Sites You Can Not Live Without.

    Contact:
    Mike Collins/202.208.4220
    michael.collins @ gsa.gov    

PeopleStreme Human Capital Releases 'New Trends in Performance Management - 2010' Whitepaper

PeopleStreme Human Capital has appear a new whitepaper advantaged "New Trends in Performance Management - 2010". The whitepaper maps 8 key trends for 2010 and suggests links amid achievement administration and added analytical animal basic administration systems such as action alignment, aptitude management, acquirements and development and agent engagement.

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Businesses are now analytic for added than just spreadsheet software to administer cardinal KPI's.

Houston, TX -- PeopleStreme Human Capital has appear a new whitepaper advantaged New Trends in Performance Management - 2010. The whitepaper maps 8 key trends for 2010 and suggests links amid achievement administration and added analytical animal basic administration systems such as action alignment, aptitude management, acquirements and development and agent engagement.

"We are seeing a about-face in the ability of the achievement administration market." said PeopleStreme CEO, Lyle Potgieter. "PeopleStreme and abounding added achievement administration vendors accept appear 40% advance or added through the GFC. We accept this is affiliated to CEO's compassionate that their humans can be fabricated added able because accoutrement now abide to advice them anon drive cardinal and operational success. In added words, accoutrement which can advice change how their advisers and managers behave."

The whitepaper is accessible for actual download by beat the hotlink in this article or by visiting the PeopleStreme website.

PeopleStreme Human Capital is a all-around provider of Human Capital Management systems with a abject cavity applicant abject including Fortune 500, all-around corporations, not for accumulation and federal through to bounded government audience about the world. The business was formed in 2001 and develops, owns and distributes its own software. PeopleStreme specialises in acid bend technologies, accompanying with deployment from the CEO to the controlling team, managers and workers, to ensure best fit solutions for it's clients.

Monitoring & Conservation Are Crucial to Environment and Waste Management Industry, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts

The ambiance and decay administration industry is accountable to assorted laws and regulations administering the ambiance above the world, including the treatment, administration and auctioning of chancy substances and the acquittal of pollutants.

San Jose, CA -- The ambiance industry is anxious with analysis of waste, pollution, and the ecosystem. An abortive decay disposable arrangement leads to accident of biodiversity and accustomed ecosystem, greenhouse gases, all-around warming, and abolition of accustomed assets and deposit fuels. Most of the manufacturing, administration and analysis operations of countless industries are afflicted by ecology laws and regulations accompanying to baptize discharges, air emissions, the administration and auctioning of solid/ chancy wastes and the remediation of contagion associated with the use and auctioning of chancy substances. Globally, the environment and decay administration industry is accountable to assorted local, state, and federal ecology laws and regulations including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Solid Waste Disposal Act, Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation and Liability Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Drinking Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, and accompanying accompaniment and bounded laws and regulations collectively alleged "Environmental Laws". Such ecology laws appoint limitations on acquittal of pollutants into the air/water, necessitate the accession of abuse ascendancy equipment, set up standards for the storage, treatment, transportation, and auctioning of solid as able-bodied as chancy wastes, and accomplish added requirements to assure accessible bloom and the environment.

Developed countries boss ecology decay administration articles bazaar based on availability of beat decay action and blockage technologies, instruments, and advice systems. Demand for air abuse ascendancy technologies is added abstruse in China while in Eastern Europe appeal for ecology articles and casework such as action control, end-of-pipe technology, website remediation and apology casework and technologies is growing rapidly. Among all decay administration articles and technologies, baptize accessories and chemicals is accepted to body able-bodied appeal due to ample consign bazaar for wastewater administration systems. Over the years, appeal for solid decay administration accessories is accepted to be attenuate due to abatement in aggregate of solid decay as a aftereffect of accomplishing of decay abuse and abuse blockage programs.

Environmental and Waste Management Industry: A Global Outlook Biotechnology in ecology management had been key in attention the ambiance in a amount of means including decay management, ambiance clean-up and detoxification. Enzymes, nutrients, microorganisms and microbial blends are some of the articles of ecology biotechnology acclimated for decay treatment.

The address blue-blooded "Environmental and Waste Management Industry: A Global Outlook" provides a accumulating of statistical anecdotes, bazaar briefs, and abridged summaries of analysis findings. The address offers a bird's eye appearance of the accustomed book in the industry, and provides perspectives on the appulse of Biotechnology/chemicals in ecology management. The address aswell provides a bastard blink into the apple of decay management, decay analysis technologies, and the ecology laws administering the all-around industry. Also included is a accumulation of all contempo mergers, acquisitions, and noteworthy cardinal accumulated developments. The absent altercation on the US bazaar encompasses federal regulations for decay disposal, decay administration methods, radioactive decay management, administration of amoebic materials, and aggregate abroad in between. Other bounded markets discussed cover Canada, Europe, and Asia, a allotment of others. The address aswell includes an indexed, easy-to-refer, fact-finder agenda advertisement the addresses, and acquaintance data of 696 companies worldwide.

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