Managers need to develop social capital
By Kapp Johnson You might be well aware of John Donne’s poem “No Man is an Island.” Written in 1674, it was not originally a poem but prose. It speaks profoundly of what we might call social capital today. The poem speaks beyond networking to a depth of relationships that are more than instrumental. In Read More →
Cal Poly SLO gets funding to study strawberry plants, teach communications
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo announced Sept. 8 that it received a grant to teach environmental science communications a day after the university’s strawberry center was included in a $4.5 million study to find disease resistance in strawberry plants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded professors Yi-Wen Chiu and Jason Peters $140,000 over three years to pilot the new curriculum, Read More →
Our view: Congress should allow ‘dreamers’ to stay in U.S.
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Hansen ag research center searching for next big crop
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Retiring Cuesta leader led turnaround effort
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Cuesta College President Gilbert Stork retiring
Gilbert Stork, superintendent and president of Cuesta College since 2010, has announced his retirement as of June 30, 2018. Stork, who has been employed at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo for more than 50 years, is the college’s longest serving employee. “In my 50 years at Cuesta College, I have had the privilege to Read More →
Align employees with your company culture
By Sumantra Sengupta Over the years, I have had the pleasure of serving a range of organizations from cool startups to the Fortune 100 global giants. Very little of what I learned in business school prepared me for the various mental machinations that I had to perform to align and succeed in these different environments. Read More →
