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Conferences
AQP’s 25th Annual
Conference
The Association for Quality and Participation
http://www.aqp.org/conference/
February 24-26, 2003
New Orleans, LA
The keynote speakers for AQP’s 25th Annual
Conference are:
- Herman Cain: opening session on Monday,
February 24, at 8:00 a.m. Topic: “Leadership
Is Common Sense.”
- Coach Herman Boone and Coach Bill Yoast:
closing session on Wednesday, February 26, at 10:30
a.m. Topic: “Teamwork, Leadership, and
Diversity.”
Women’s Leadership Conference:
Building Inclusion, Building Success
The Conference Board
http://www.conference-board.org/conferences/conference.cfm?id=382
March 11-12, 2003
New York, NY
This session’s focus is the future of women
in leadership positions. Topics include:
- Executive Coaching: Ensuring the Inclusion of
Talented Women Into Leadership Positions.
- Time Management—A Key to Women’s
Success and Advancement.
- The Stereotypes of Women in Business.
- Gender Dynamics in the Executive Suite.
- Developing Women Leaders.
- Talent Management—Creating a
Gender-Neutral Culture.
15th Annual Quality Management Conference:
Rising to the Challenge
Quality Management Division;
American Society for Quality
http://www.asq-qmd.org/conference_1.html
March 12-14, 2003
Phoenix, AZ
The session and course discussions, luncheons, and
breaks will provide networking forums where
participants from across the country and around the
world can get together to share their challenges and
experiences. The networking focal point will be the
exhibitor area, where a variety of quality-related
organizations will display, discuss, and demonstrate
products and services to support your quality
efforts.
Web Sites
NASA Headquarters Library
Bibliographies
http://www.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/pathfinders/topics.htm
A set of bibliographies on management topics,
including change management, employee motivation, and
teams compiled by the NASA headquarters’
library.
Center for Leadership and Change
Management
http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/welcome/index.shtml
The Center for Leadership and Change Management is
an independently managed Web site of the Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania. The center
is dedicated to building basic and practical
understanding of leadership and change.
Building Excellence With Human
Capital
http://apps.opm.gov/humancapital/
The Human Capital Performance Web site is
dedicated to bringing information and resources that
can be used to assess, formulate, and implement human
capital strategies.
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and
Science
http://onlineethics.org/
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and
Science’s mission is to provide engineers,
scientists, and science and engineering students with
resources for understanding and addressing ethically
significant problems that arise in their work.
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