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Management Coaching: The Heart of Performance Management

The semantics of training and development do a great job of muddling the topic of human effectiveness on the job. /What, precisely, are the differences and similarities among terms like engagement and performance management and performance appraisal, and even motivation ? /At the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness, we mostly leave these questions to others. We focus instead on a skill that drives any and all of the above regardless of terminology. In fact, it has been our number-one workshop for more than 25 years. /It s not trendy, perhaps, to work on coaching . . .

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Cytokinetics, Incorporated announced an amendment of the company’s collaboration and license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline , under which Cytokinetics will assume responsibility for the costs and activities of continued development of the kinesin spindle protein inhibitors ispinesib and SB-743921, subject to GSK’s option to resume responsibility for some or all development and commercialization

Science: Anti-Inflammatory Discovery 
Science writer Cheryl Lyn Dybas will be online to answer questions about the discovery of a plant that contains a powerful anti-inflammatory substance.

Breathing lessons 
Robert and Leah Devine still maintain trails for the Appalachian Mountain Club, but not as many miles. She is the Sherpa now, and he rides rather then pushes a lawnmower around their camp in Maine.

ACS News Service Weekly PressPac — Nov. 22, 2006 
Here is the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service Weekly press package (PressPac) with reports selected from 35 major peer-reviewed journals and Chemical & Engineering News.