November 20, 2010 - by Pat Galagan
Extreme downsizing is what management professor Wayne Cascio says companies engage in when they cut their workforce by more than 20 percent. To date, almost 40 percent of the United States's largest companies practiced extreme downsizing during the Great Recession. Down... More »
July 20, 2010 - by ASTD Staff
An interview with Edward Scannell, Director, Center for Professional Development and Training More »
July 15, 2010 - by Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney
2009 is one year that none of us will ever forget. We all had to shrink to squeeze through the eye of the storm, and we had to learn how to compete in a completely new game. Our competitors, we found, are no longer in our neighborhoods or on the other side of town. They... More »
July 14, 2010 - by Marjorie Derven
The global recession and threat of a jobless recovery have converged with decade-long seismic shifts in the workplace (Table 1) to create profound implications for today's employees. These volatile changes have been dubbed the "new normal," where long-held assumptions h... More »
May 20, 2010 - by ASTD Staff
An interview with Marilee Adams, Founder and President, Inquiry Institute More »
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