Lots of interesting items come across my screen every week.  Here are some that didn't make it into the blog this week, but which may make interesting reading for you this weekend. 

This week I'm pointing you to articles about what's going on today at AIG, changing dress code at Wal-Mart, market forces and global warming, the changing definition of a "normal" job, and lessons from Tibetan monks.

From the Wall Street Journal: After the Storm at AIG
"CEO Sullivan Guides Insurer Past Accounting Scandal; Income Rises, but Stock Lags"

From Business Week: Wal-Mart: Off with Their Smocks!
"As part of an ongoing effort to improve its image, workers at the retail giant's stores will soon be sporting a more modern look. Just don't call it a uniform"

From HBS Working Knowledge: Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
"The debate over global warming appears to have passed a tipping point. We can debate just when it happened. But it was probably sometime before Al Gore's film won the Academy Award. From now on, we can expect to be bombarded with almost daily news articles about its long-term effects on those living in low-lying areas along coastlines, those attempting to grow crops in rapidly shifting climates, those living along the equator as opposed to temperate climes (being addressed by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as this article hits the Internet), and even those getting ready to drill for oil in open water that the polar ice caps still cover. The list goes on and on. Within the past few days, Thomas Friedman, the journalist and best-selling author of The World Is Flat, intimated in an interview with Tim Russert that he is particularly excited about what may happen when the American business community and its ideas are unleashed on the problem."

From Management-Issues: So what is a normal job?
"The nature of work is changing far quicker than the economic world around us. Just glance around a modern workplace to see how far our working styles have evolved from just a few years ago. Ask an executive the seemingly simple question "what is a 'normal' job?" and the probability is that they'll struggle to answer."

From MabelandHarry: 10 Lessons from the Tibetan Monks
"Leaders can learn a lot from the Tibetan monks ability to control their emotions."

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