Boy Scouts in Southern California can now earn a merit badge for learning about the evils of downloading pirated films and music from the internet. Scouts wanting to earn this badge featuring a movie reel and a music CD must choose from a list of activities that include visiting a movie studio to see how [...]
Truth Decay
Approximately 36,000 teens from throughout the US were surveyed recently about matters of cheating, lying, and stealing, and the results are eye opening. Although they appear to aspire to do the right thing and they clearly respect those who do, the percentage of those who admit to personally cheating, lying, and stealing is quite alarming. [...]
Flex Scheduling on Steroids
With an emerging generation of highly talented young workers who disengage from jobs that do not value employee independence, autonomy, and flexibility, turnover is wreaking havoc on the 9 to 5 way of doing business. Thank God there are some forward-thinking companies that are doing some mighty innovative things to set themselves apart and appeal [...]
Ditching the Blue Vest
In its effort to ‘Preppy-Up’ the working environment, Wal-Mart in a posh suburb of Minneapolis will not require its staff to wear the familiar blue vests. Instead, associates will be decked out in blue polo-style shirts and khaki pants. Target relaxed its dress code standards a few years ago, telling associates simply to wear red [...]