Apparently, while 73% of middle managers say they work in an environment that claims to support learning and development only around a half of them are actually experiencing it in practice and a quarter of them believe that in reality their companies actually see personal development as something of a luxury.

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His overriding comments on Muslims, in general, were certainly laudable and long overdue in the public place in as far as they spoke to the irrelevance of a candidate's personal faith practice.

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He had recently attended a trade show and mentioned to me that the keynote speaker, a dynamic executive and head of HR for a publicly traded company, referred in the speech he gave to the importance of his personal yoga practice.

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