Also, based on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations, an executive or manager is limited to seven years, while an individual with specialized knowledge can stay for five years.

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The cash gives corporate successors the luxury of time and choice to recruit a new manager, hire a temporary executive or train someone already in the firm.

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In truth, the actions any executive, manager, or supervisor should take to achieve the highest performing workforce are very simple: listen to their concerns and respond to them to their satisfaction or better.

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Will the new owner retain the services of Ned Colletti as general manager or will we see another wunderkind executive cut from the same cloth as Theo Epstein, Paul DePodesta, Jed Hoyer and Jon Daniels?

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The language, developed by IRS workers with the involvement of a "front-line manager" was "not reviewed or approved by executive management, " Ms. Lerner wrote.

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So the question is why on earth no Barclays' manager ever sought to tell Mr Diamond or any other senior executive that for months they had been systematically telling the Libor-setting committees that Barclays' borrowing costs were lower than was actually the case?

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