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You would think that with all today's technology, employers would see the value in letting people work from home. Yet even in this era of Skype, videoconferencing and cellphones that we sleep with, some bosses cling to the idea that it is somehow better to have all the sheep report to an office...

Last month, 96 CEO changes were announced by U.S. based companies, reports job-services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, among them the heads of Google and Advanced Micro Devices. The number is down 9% from December, but 8% higher than January 2010, when 89 CEOs left their corner offices behind.

Many investors look at a slew of financial data and ratios to figure out which stocks will offer the best returns. While no one discounts the value of in-depth research, there is one ingredient that is often overlooked -- yet it's the key to outperformance.

Watching which way the talent is flowing in Silicon Valley can tell investors a lot. Even if a big brain drain isn't a sure death knell for a major player, it can't be ignored. And during the last couple of years, a lot of talent has been draining out of Silicon Valley icon Google.

A lack of vision or a strategic plan isn't the trouble at many companies. Rather, it's that they can't move from idea to reality. Successful companies move from strategy to execution by using what management consultant Richard Lepsinger calls "Five Bridges."

Incoming BP (BP) CEO Bob Dudley fired the executive at the center of the Gulf oil disaster and created a new division to improve safety. Andy Inglis, the head of the company's upstream business, will leave the company at the end of the year, BP said in a statement. Sponsored Links The company...

Campbell Soup Company (CPB) CEO Douglas Conant will step down on July 31, 2011 after more than a decade in the post. Denise Morrison, currently the president of the company's North American soup, sauces and beverage unit, is expected to succeed Conant, Reuters reported. Morrison has been...

For married couples of opposite genders, the downturn's inordinate impact on men has resulted in an increasing number of wives becoming the primary breadwinner. Surprisingly, many men don't mind at all.

Royal Philips Electronics (PHG) named Frans van Houten as its new CEO, effective April 2011. Van Houten, 50, will replace Gerard Kleisterlee, Bloomberg News reported. Van Houten was a member of the Philips management board until 2006, and led the spinoff of the company's semiconductor business....

"The Checklist Manifesto," a new book by surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande, contends that the simple checklist has become indispensable throughout the world of increasingly complex work -- and it should not be underestimated or dismissed, even by experts.