With the unemployment rate in the United States jumping to 8.5 percent in recent months (the highest it's been since 1983, according to the U.S. Department of Labor) the current recession is showing few signs of abating.
Many blame a lack of government oversight in key financial areas and massive breakdown in corporate governance - from the failure of corporate boards to hold executive management accountable, to the lack of solid, thoughtful succession planning within organizations - for th
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