To Fly or Not to Fly

Aparna Nancherla

Despite a new year, the jury's still out on air travel. Is flying no longer costeffective, or is it still affordable? The overall business travel climate does not look promising. Thirty-one percent of respondents reported expecting the number of flights they take for bu... More »

From Big Macs and YouTube to Down the Tube

ASTD Staff

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google Nicholas Carr W.W. Norton & Co. The way the Internet has changed us and the world around us can be the stuff of deep conversations and academic inquiry. Author Nicholas Carr, a former editor with the Harvard ... More »

Leadership Boot Camp Drives Engagement

Paula Ketter

Recognizing the direct correlation between account manager turnover and client retention, AlliedBarton Security Services's executives commissioned a team of senior leaders to address gaps in the leadership pipeline and focus on the strategic needs of the company, while ... More »

What Happened to the HRO Market?

Kevin Oakes

A few years ago the predictions were lofty. According to the Yankee Group five years ago, the human resource outsourcing market (HRO) would be $80 billion globally by now, with half of that being the U.S. market. Several years ago Decision Point wrote that by 2008 HR ou... More »

Strategic and Relevant

Rex Davenport

For Northrop Grumman, a diverse set of business units - each with its own L&D organization - work together to create an enterprise-wide brand of leadership development, as well as more innovative and cost-effective ways of shaping and executing learning processes. N... More »