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 corporate scrutiny of employee behavior, quarterly guidance, leadership development, PowerPoint's birthday, and office pilfering.

From the Wall Street Journal: Personal Boundaries Shrink as Companies Punish Bad Behavior
"Corporate directors are far less willing than they were a few years ago to look the other way if an executive does something that threatens to embarrass a company. This is the case even if the executive is a star performer. It's also true even if the action had nothing to do directly with work and isn't tied to illegal behavior, such as sexual harassment or "creating a hostile work environment." The offense could be getting drunk or acting lewd at parties or having tangled or abusive love relationships."

From the Financial Times: Call for end to quarterly guidance
"An unprecedented coalition of large companies, pension funds, and trade unions will on Monday urge corporate America to scrap quarterly earnings guidance in an attempt to curtail the influence of hedge funds and other short-term investors. The move, backed by leading corporate figures such as Jeff Kindler, chief executive of Pfizer, and Anne Mulcahy, his counterpart at Xerox, will increase pressure on companies and fund managers to focus on long-term objectives rather than short-term fixes."

From Training Magazine: Leadership Drivers
"Earlier this year, several Training Top 125 company executives gathered in New York City for an informal roundtable primarily focused on leadership development and best practices. Here, some highlights from the roundtable that offer a glimpse into what the companies are doing to strengthen and promote leadership development. "

From the Wall Street Journal: PowerPoint Turns 20, As Its Creators Ponder a Dark Side to Success
"One of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers is 20 years old. There won't be a lot of birthday celebrations for PowerPoint; the program is one the world loves to mock almost as much as it loves to use."

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In the office, richer you are, more you pilfer
"In a survey released this week, nearly 20 percent of people said that in the past year, they had taken office supplies for personal use -- with workers earning more than $75,000 being the most likely to raid the supply closet."

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