New Normal for Leaders: Turbulence and Unpredictability

Ice and Whiskey: There's Much to Learn from Century-Old Stories ...
By Geoff Rowan
Koehn says turbulence and unpredictability are the new normal for today's leaders, and Shackleton demonstrated uncanny ability to deal with unexpected and potentially fatal disasters again and again during his expedition cross Antarctica on ...
Ketchum Blog 

Unwed Childbearing is the 'New Normal'? Depends on Where You Stand
National Review Online (blog)
By Rachel Sheffield Unwed childbearing is the “new normal” for women under 30, reports the New York Times. A study from the research organization Child Trends reveals that 53 percent of births to women in this age group now occur outside marriage.

Survey: CDW Says Mobile Computing is “New Normal” for Federal Employees
Integration Developers
BYOD is becoming the new normal for government workers. More than half of federal employees use at least one mobile device at work, according to the Federal Mobility Report by CDW Government LLC. Further, an off-the-charts 99% of Federal IT workers ...

Integration Developers

Drought may be new norm for UK, says environment secretary
The Guardian
"We asked the question at the drought summit [on Monday] – what if this is what climate change means and this is the new normal?" She said the UK had to look at how to make plants resistant to drought, pointing to an Australian project to develop ...

The Guardian

The new normal?
First Things (blog)
The New York Times calls unwed motherhood “the new normal,” at least for women under 30. Over at the Georgia Family Council site, I disagree. The Times reporters attempt a Grey Lady version of evenhandedness, but following Rachel Sheffield, ...

Yardeni: Numbers Show “Old Normal” Reigns
The Guru Investor
Strategist Ed Yardeni says that the “New Normal” scenario that has been promulgated by Bill Gross and PIMCO is off base — and says recent economic data proves it. “While Bill Gross sees a world full of new normals and paranormals, the old normal ...

The End of News
AllAfrica.com
Call it the new normal. We are living in a new world of our own making in which tragedy has become routine. Bombs raining down in crowded public spaces on a daily basis, routine killings, sub-standard buildings collapsing, looting of public treasury on ...

A Comcastic Omen for America
Moneyshow.com
Remember the New Normal, bracing us for years of austerity, slow growth, and miserly investment returns? Remember the buying sprees for gold, guns, and other apocalypse staples? Also, remember how cable was done? How we were all going to rip out the ...

Investing In A Paranormal Market - February Update
Seeking Alpha
Last month I suggested a possible strategy for investing under the "New Normal," or even "Paranormal," market conditions put forth by Bill Gross of PIMCO. My strategy was developed for a hypothetical investor who was interested in achieving long-term ...

Losing your religion has link with disorders
The Age
There are fears mental illness will become the new normal. This would do wonders for reducing stigma, at the very least, but our natural resilience could be rendered powerless by the culture of therapy. We would be the nation that moved from Anzac to ...

The Age

Hatch: Rhode Island health plan reform good model for Iowa
DesMoinesRegister.com
We will never fully recover if higher insurance premiums and fewer benefits remain the new normal. And, more affordable rates will not occur until we change the way our medical care is organized and delivered. This is the reason Democrats are ...

Fashion chains demand larger mannequins as average woman measures up to ...
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter The 'new normal' for women, including celebrities like Adele and Christina Hendricks, has led to a surge in demand for larger mannequins from fashion chains. Displaysense, which manufactures shop dummies, has seen a big increase ...

Daily Mail

CFOs Need to Refocus on Building the Business, Not Just Saving It
Business Finance Magazine
by Dave Blanchard CFOs and other finance executives have done a great job at controlling costs throughout the extended period of global economic volatility that has become the "new normal." But there's a growing sense of that CFOs need to do more to ...

Adele and Christina Hendricks to thank for larger mannequins!
heatworld
The new mannequins will reflect the shape of the 'new normal' women, and reflect the size of the nation's hourglass figure, which is said to stand at 12-14. So when we look in a shop window now we may actually be able to picture ourselves in those ...

heatworld

Wal-Mart's prices hurt profit; B&N, Home Depot, Macy's earnings
Los Angeles Times
"Our price leadership is making a difference across the United States, as many families are settling into a new normal," he said, promising still more discounts in 2012. But Wal-Mart's gross margin in the US slid $100 million from last year and its...

Los Angeles Times

An agile IT architecture in three easy steps
Computerworld Australia
Business agility isn't just a good idea, it's the new normal. And the role of IT is to enable agility. Business happens in real time these days, driven by global e-commerce, social media networks and consumer IT. Companies have to be agile to keep up ...

Returning from War: An East TN soldier shares his story of PTSD & getting back ...
WBIR-TV
10News spent the past two months following an East Tennessee soldier on his journey to a new normal. Army National Guard Sgt. Chris Lindsay, 32, has been home from combat for 18 months. Like many members of the military, transition back to civilian ...

WBIR-TV

County execs discuss “regionalism” at Pattern breakfast
Mid-Hudson News
Government at all levels are being “stressed and overwhelmed by the complexities are perhaps a new normal,” he said. “It's up to us in this state to confront what is a government structure that all too often is antiquated and outmoded.

Mid-Hudson News

Gas prices: Can you afford to pay more at the pump?
Washington Post (blog)
And though fewer drivers are on the road now than before the recession, it seems that high gas prices are again the new normal, and this new normal is politically polarizing. Tell us: Are you feeling the crunch? Leave your thoughts in the comments ...

BREAKING: UK Trustees OK building new 600-bed dorm, first step in planned $500 ...
The Lane Report
“We are living in a new normal in terms of the public support we will receive to help fuel our ambitions for Kentucky,” Capilouto said. “That means we have to form partnerships – partnerships with the state and federal governments and partnerships with ...

Dan Moran: Starlight scoped on trail
Lake County News Sun
I'm hoping against hope that this is a new normal. But when I stumbled across the headline “Hike, Ski or Snowshoe on Solar-Lighted Trail,” I did find myself wishing for a six-inch, powdery snowfall that would last only long enough for me to enjoy the ...

Wal-Mart's 4Q show rebounding US business, but profit margins squeezed amid ...
Washington Post
“I do think there's a new normal with customers,” Holley he said during a call with reporters Tuesday. “The markets are more volatile. Gas prices are more volatile. Customers are looking for new ways to save money because they don't know around the ...

Wal-Mart holiday price cuts hit profits
Reuters
"There is a new normal with customers," Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley told reporters. "Markets are more volatile, gas prices are more volatile and so I think the customer is going to continue to look for ways to save money because they don't ...

Working Mothers Feel Empowered at Work and Supported at Home, But Few Have ...
MarketWatch (press release)
But increasingly, as more women enter (or re-enter) the workplace, and professional aspirations continue, businesses need to catch up to the new normal of the motherhood workforce. Nearly three out of four companies (73%) where working moms are ...

With gas prices soaring, NJ feels pain at the pump
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
... if the price is still above the cost from the prior year. "We don't have a new normal," she said. "People get re-adjusted to where their new mindset is." AP contributed to this report. By Mike Frassinelli and Tom Haydon/ The Star-Ledger gas1 . JPG.

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Macy's and Home Depot shine as Wal-Mart disappoints
Telegraph.co.uk
"Our price leadership is making a difference across the US, as many families are settling into a new normal," he said. Besides competition from the likes of Target, Wal-Mart has also been battling with high petrol prices over the last year, ...

Telegraph.co.uk

WalMart results encourage US caution
ForexLive (blog)
CEO Mike Duke: “Many families are settling into a new normal. Core customers remain cautious about their finances, and they rely on Walmart's [low price] promise to help them manage through today's economic challenges.” Officials from WalMart said they ...

No plans for summer 'Glee Live!' tour this year
Tulsa World
Murphy, who helms “Glee,” “American Horror Story” on FX and executive-produces “The Glee Project” on Oxygen is also working a new comedy pilot titled “The New Normal.” By RITA SHERROW World Television Editor.

Friend2Friend Expands Social Media Marketing Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
"Like Backbone Media, Friend2Friend believes passionately that social is the new 'normal' in marketing, and has built technical solutions that really encompass the needs and challenges of forward-thinking, socially savvy brands across the spectrum, ...

Raising Children Outside Of Marriage Officially The New Normal
By Koa Beck
A study confirms that for women under 30, most births occur outside marriage. But it really highlights how much kids need dedicated parents.
Mommyish

Mortgages and Housing: FCs and House Prices, Great Deals, Meet ...
By admin
Mortgages and Housing: FCs and House Prices, Great Deals, Meet Homeward Residential, RE Buyer Items, Bulk REOs (3), Red Tape, $300k New Normal, Low Mortgage Payments, Payroll Tax Cut & G-fees, FC Settlement Who Pays?
Mortgage News Clips

City Tech Documentary on Young Men of Color Premieres on ...
By nyct
The 30-minute documentary, A New Normal: Young Men of Color, Trauma, and Engagement in Learning, was funded by a grant from The City University of New York Diversity Projects Development Fund and filmed over the course of a year ...
CUNY Newswire

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By Stephen
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Jade Island

JWT Manila adapts 10 trends for 2012 for local market and clients ...
By Pam Garcia – Manila
Take Navigating the New Normal, which points to more marketers in more categories opening up more entry points for extremely cost sensitive consumers. Because of their innate resourcefulness amid continuing economic adversity, Filipino ...
JWT Intelligence

GOP 12: Mitt "Seabiscuit" Romney
By Christian Heinze
... call this Michigan guy who is fighting like an underdog in this barnburner of a campaign that's closing fast. The new normal -- Romney is David, and Santorum is now Goliath. Posted by Christian Heinze at 4:00 PM. Labels: Mitt Romney news ...
GOP 12

Game on | Woulda Coulda Shoulda
By Mir
I'm still searching for that New Normal. Maybe I put it in the dryer and the universe mistook it for a sock? Stranger things have happened. In the meantime, we're rediscovering some simple pleasures here at home. The beds are unmade and ...
Woulda Coulda Shoulda

The Arbitrageur: The Decline and Fall of Silver Backwardation ...
By Keith Weiner
Gold during this entire time has not been backwardated (except for the brief flickers as each contract heads into expiration, which is now part of the "new normal"). My hypothesis is that there was a big duration mismatch problem in silver ...
Recent Commentaries | Safehaven.com

Do Investors Love or Hate These 5 Retailers After Earnings? (NYSE ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
“Our price leadership is making a difference across the United States, as many families are settling into a new normal. Core customers remain cautious about their finances, and they rely on Walmart's EDLP promise to help them manage ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Why is Glee So Gay? | TheCollegeConservative
By Tanner Salyers
According to Entertainment Weekly, there was a bidding war between ABC, NBC, and FOX for the project, with the show going to NBC.[9] The announcement that NBC had officially ordered a pilot episode for the series, titled “The New Normal” ...
TheCollegeConservative

How Much Supply Chain Optimization Do We Really Need? – Part 1 ...
By P.J. Jakovljevic
My recent series on how to plan and manage in uncertainty and volatility (which conditions have become the “new normal” in many sectors and industries) has generated much interest and many comments. As mentioned in the series, the ...
The TEC Blog

India to retain economic ties to Iran | Harvard Gazette
She said it is unclear how recent developments will change the region, and the path toward anew normal may be a long one. It is critical, she said, that extremists not hijack popular movements and step into the vacuum left by fallen regimes.
Harvard Gazette

The New Normal | Father Knows Last
The New Normal. Posted on February 20, 2012 by jimlindlauf. Running has become a pretty big part of my life. A quick look back at my recent blog postings tells ...
jimlindlauf.areavoices.com/2012/02/20/the-new-normal/

'Mental Illness' Is The New Normal | Black & Right X
'Mental Illness' Is The New Normal. Posted on February 21, 2012 by Black & Right · Newest Government Magic Trick: Disability Fraud Holds Down ...
www.black-and-right.com/.../mental-illness-is-the-new-normal...

The PJ Tatler » Is Social Security Disability the New Normal?
Yes, it is the “New Normal.” From my experiences working within the Social Services, I can say that about every other Client I have dealt with wants the “ magic ...
pjmedia.com/.../is-social-security-disability-the-new-normal/

The 3-D Hurricane and the New Normal
Debt, deficit, and demographics - the 3-D hurricane - is heading to the shores of all developed economies.
cfainstitute.org/learning/products/.../02212012_63690.aspx

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