Green Education Takes Hold

Ann Pace

Times have changed. Today, executives earning professional credentials are writing their 20-page papers on environmental sustainability and socially responsible leadership. The Corporate Responsibility Officer Association (CRO) has compiled a list of the top 10 corporat... More »

Swimming With the Sharks and Treading Water With a New Business: How Will You Reinvent Yourself?

ASTD Staff

The Smartest Guys in the Room Alex Gibney (director) Magnolia Pictures The continuing (and mindnumbing) meltdown of our financial institutions sent us back to watch this amazing documentary. When Enron spoke, the markets listened. Don't believe for a minute that the han... More »

New Training Leads Farmers on Journey to Success

Paula Ketter

As recently as 2005, tenured agent sales productivity lagged behind prior years' results and new agent productivity, and was not contributing to the organization's need for double-digit growth. Extensive research to determine the underlying cause of this downward trend ... More »

Converting Organizational Cynicism

Paul Trout

We are stuck. Society, media, businesses, leaders, workers, and even futurists have become quick cynics, happy to take an easy bath in the hard shower of sad news. And who can blame them, really? Those with immense power offered easy access to credit to those with littl... More »

Serving up Capability

Rex Davenport

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants, with more than 36,000 restaurants in more than 112 countries and territories. Yum! is ranked No. 253 on the Fortune 500 List, with revenues in exc... More »