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- Calif. county is left with half of its city managers
Five of the 10 cities in Ventura County, Calif., are without a city manager after the resignation of Port Hueneme's manager became effective Monday. Financial issues played a significant part in four of the departures. The average manager spends five to seven years with a city, according to ICMA. Ventura County Star (Calif.) (free registration)
(10/13)
    
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- Governments eye reductions in retiree health benefits
More local governments are cutting benefits for retirees as it's estimated that U.S. health care costs per worker will increase to $11,188 next year, compared with $7,874 in 2007. "There is no guarantee for retiree health, there never has been. It is not as simple to cut as it is in the private sector, but it's a target and it's unfunded," says Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Reuters
(10/15)
- Mich. voters to decide on collective-bargaining rights
A ballot initiative in Michigan seeks to guarantee collective-bargaining rights for public- and private-sector workers through a constitutional amendment. If the measure passes, similar ones are likely in other states, observers say. Business groups reportedly are spending millions of dollars to defeat the measure. The Hill
(11/4)
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- 3 principles that are the bedrock of good management
There will be improvements in performance when companies follow three basic principles of management, write Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. Companies should have short- and long-term goals, reward high performers and regularly monitor all aspects of the organization. These principles can also be applied to manufacturing, health care and education, they write. Harvard Business Review
(11/2012)
- Do you have a fatal flaw?
More than a quarter of bosses have at least one "fatal flaw," defined as a core competency at which they're ranked as worse than 90% of their peers, Joe Folkman writes. Flawed leaders must act swiftly to address their failings, or else their careers will suffer, Folkman warns. "Fatal flaws are not easy to change, but improvement is possible," he writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership
(10/30)
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