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View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - North Korea Says It Will Rejoin Nuclear Negotiations

Fred Harteis News Articles - North Korea agreed today to resume nuclear disarmament talks, the first sign of easing tensions since the country’s nuclear test earlier this month.

 

China announced that six-nation talks will reconvene shortly, after more than a year-long hiatus, and an American envoy in Beijing said they could take place later this month or in December.

 

The agreement marks a procedural victory for Beijing, which scrambled to reopen a diplomatic channel even as it joined the United States and other international powers in supporting ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - Working From Home Comes With a Price

Fred Harteis News Articles - Tired of the traveling required as a private manager in IBM's consulting group, John Zeising thought a job transfer to a home-based role seemed like the perfect option. But as the years slipped by, he discovered that working from home came with a price.

 

"It just got old," he said. "Every year it got ... progressively more isolating. I felt like a hermit. ... You just kind of sit there looking at the walls wondering what you're doing with your life."

 

Zeising said ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - Bishops Draft Rules on Ministering to Gays

Fred Harteis News Articles - The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have drafted new guidelines for ministry to gay people that affirm church teaching against same-sex relationships, marriages and adoptions by gay couples, yet encourage parishes to reach out to gay Catholics who feel alienated by their church.

 

The bishops’ document, the result of a four-year effort, gives specific instructions on some of the conundrums now faced in many parishes.

 

The guidelines recommend baptizing the adopted children of same-sex couples, as long as the children will be raised as ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles- Kanti Gala : Leaders Uplift Others

Fred Harteis News Articles -Kanti Gala Quixtar IBO states, “General Montgomery leadership check list applies to all organizations. Leaders uplift and convey a deeply held enthusiasm.”

 

Kanti Gala top picks leader check list

 

“The leader must have infectious optimism….The final test of  a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference.  Have you a feeling of uplift or confidence?”

Field General Bernard Montgomery

 

Kanti Gala, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - U.S. Economic Growth Slowed in 3rd Quarter

Fred Harteis News Articles - The economy grew more slowly in the third quarter than at any time since early 2003, held back by a deflating housing market.

 

The Commerce Department reported this morning that the nation’s gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of just 1.6 percent from July through September. That preliminary estimate compares with a rate of 2.6 percent in the second quarter and the robust 5.6 percent pace recorded in the first. The figures are seasonally adjusted.

 

The slowdown in the third quarter ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News - Quixtar IBO Association, Service To Business Owners

Fred Harteis News - About the  IBO Association: First the IBO Association was The American Way Association - then, with the formation of Amway, IBO Association became the Amway Distributors Association. As the business changed and Amway matured into Alticor, Amway, Quixtar, and their sister companies, so the Association matured – we became the IBOAI (Independent Business Owners Association International-al).

 

When entrepreneurs start businesses, they usually have no one but themselves looking after their own interests, but not Independent Business Owners (Quixtar IBOs).

 

The minute someone becomes ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles- Overhead Costs Consume Budget for Iraq Reconstruction

Fred Harteis News Articles - Overhead costs have consumed more than half the budget of some reconstruction projects in Iraq, according to a government estimate released yesterday, leaving far less money than expected to provide the oil, water and electricity needed to improve the lives of Iraqis.

 

The report by a federal oversight agency provided the first official estimate that in some cases, more money was being spent on things like housing and feeding employees, completing paperwork and providing security than on actual construction.

 

In some cases those ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News - Steve Woods: Lead Through Respect

Fred Harteis News - Steve Woods observes, “Leadership  that must rely on title or position that controls actions based on fear of  loosing job is the lowest level of working with people.  The impact does not expand beyond the office. Respecting individuals is magnetic.”

 

Steve Woods top picks leading and respect

 

“If you lead through fear you will have little to respect; but if you lead through respect you will have little to fear.”

 

 

Steve Woods Quixtar IBO diamond leader, is a ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles- Growing Absentee Voting Is Reshaping Campaigns

Fred Harteis News Articles - For millions of Americans, Election Day is already over.

 

Thirty states now allow no-excuse absentee voting, and most of them also allow voters to cast early ballots in person at county clerks’ offices or satellite polling places.

 

In Montana, absentee ballots were mailed Sept. 22. As many as 40 percent of Florida’s voters will cast their ballots before Election Day, Nov. 7. Oregon’s elections are conducted entirely by mail, and Washington is moving that way. California sent out 3.8 million ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News - Jim Janz Management Tip

Fred Harteis News - Jim Janz says, “Developing the skills of remembering names takes work and a commitment to becoming an outstanding listener.”

 

Jim Janz top picks on making your people feel valued .

 

“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

Dale Carnegie

 

Jim Janz , Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners Association (IBO)

 

Mission of official IBO trade association is to serve and protect the business interests ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role

Fred Harteis News Articles - The Bush administration is drafting a timetable for the Iraqi government to address sectarian divisions and assume a larger role in securing the country, senior American officials said.

 

Details of the blueprint, which is to be presented to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki before the end of the year and would be carried out over the next year and beyond, are still being devised. But the officials said that for the first time Iraq was likely to be asked to agree to a schedule ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News - Terry Felber : Make Praise In Writing

Fred Harteis News - Terry Felber Quixtar IBO notes,” Praise can be most effective when done in front of peers and then memoralized in writing. Correction is best handled in private.”

 

Felber top picks on praise .

 

“When I must criticize somebody, I do it orally; when I praise somebody, I put it in writing.”

Lee Iacocca

 

Terry Felber, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners (IBO Association) (IBO)

 

 

Mission of IBO trade association is to serve ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - Declining Energy Costs Lower Consumer Prices

Fred Harteis News Articles - Rapidly falling energy prices helped bring overall consumer prices down by half a percentage point in September, the Labor Department reported today.

 

Excluding the volatile prices of food and energy, the consumer price index, which measures prices Americans pay at the retail level, rose by a fairly modest 0.2 percent, just as it did in July and August.

 

The price report, and another that prefigured a further cooling of the housing market, were taken as signs that the economy was slowing gradually and ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles - Office Spies

Fred Harteis News Articles - YOUR BOSS KNOWS you're reading this story.

 

That shouldn't come as a surprise. Employees have come to expect that their company keeps track of the web sites they visit and the emails they send. But does it stop there?

 

It's a question many are asking thanks to the recent scandal at Hewlett-Packard, in which the company hired private investigators to spy on board members and reporters covering the company. The investigators were accused of using "pretexting," or illegally masquerading as their targets to ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News Articles- N. Korea May Be Preparing for 2nd Nuclear Test

Fred Harteis News Articles -  North Korea may be preparing for a second nuclear test, South Korean and Japanese officials said today, as the Communist state threatened “merciless blows” against any country imposing the sanctions just adopted by the United Nations Security Council.

 

A spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry called the sanctions a “declaration of war” and said that the regime in Pyongyang was more confident in its ability to deter attacks now that it had joined the nuclear club.

 

American officials on Monday confirmed ...   more »

View Article  Fred Harteis News: Angelo Nardone - Successful Teams Are Built with Trust

Fred Harteis News - Angelo Nardone, “Building trust with people happens over time and is well worth the effort.”

 

Angelo Nardone top picks on trust.

 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

-- George MacDonald

 

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

-- Booker T. Washington

 

 

Angelo Nardone, Quixtar Diamond IBO leader, is a board member of IBOAI, Independent Business Owners Association (IBO)

 

Mission of trade ...   more »