The personality types who are killing office meeting productivityPosted by RJ and Makay on May 17, 2012 |
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Office meetings can be a challenge for any business organization, and corporate trainers have identified personality types and gathered anecdotal data that sheds light on meeting dynamics. Naysayers are those that challenge just about anything anyone brings to the table. For them, “whatever you bring up, it will never work,” says Dana Brownlee, founder of Professionalism Matters, an Atlanta, Georgia corporate-training company.
While workers’ compensation premium increased 7.4% in 2011, the combined ratio for the line remains at an unsustainable level, according to a new report by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). The combined ratio came in at 115 in 2011, the same level as in 2010. The current state of the market remains “conflicted,” the council said in its annual State of the Line workers’ compensation market analysis.
Bullish bets on commodities by hedge funds and other managers fell by 20%, or $18 billion, last week as commodity prices dropped to four-month lows, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data last Friday. As speculators continued liquidation of long positions in oil, metals and agricultural markets, the CFTC is expected to report a further drop in long commodity positions in its May 18 report, analysts said.
