When equity programs feel disconnected from business strategy or day-to-day workflows, managers treat them as optional compliance exercises rather than core leadership behaviors.
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Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2026
Dale Morris, one of the leading names in the ranks of Nashville music managers, who helped build up superstar careers for the group Alabama and then Kenny Chesney nearly from scratch, died Friday at 89.
His company serves as a representative for songs when music supervisors look to place them in movies.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
21 Aug. 2026
El Dorado County supervisors took a step toward loosening controversial regulations on vacation properties like Airbnbs and Vrbo rentals on the county’s west slope.
—
Haley Parsley
August 20,
Sacbee.com,
20 Aug. 2026
Head scribes Chris Ord and Matt Corman, and episodic directors for the remainder of the series, were let go.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
26 Aug. 2026
Projects must be led by LGBTQ+ directors and screenwriters, or by professionals whose dissident gender identities and expressions inform their creative perspectives.
The offer does not apply to employees on contract, which means that most high-level Disney executives do not qualify.
—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Aug. 2026
Multiple top tech executives come from this sales tradition, such as Dev Ittycheria, the CEO of MongoDB, Cedric Pesh, MongoDB’s CRO, Dan Fougere, the CRO of Datadog—and Dali Rajic.
The 40-member commission includes legislators, college presidents, superintendents, teachers’ union leaders, CBIA, and state officials, among others.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
23 Aug. 2026
Courtney Bearsch, chief communications officer for the Indiana Department of Education, said Wednesday the DOE has been in contact with multiple superintendents and school leaders across the state over the past week.
The victim, who hasn't been publicly identified, was treated at the scene by Santa Monica PD officers until paramedics took him to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
24 Aug. 2026
Within three minutes of arriving, the officers had killed the attacker.
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