Far from the dramatic coups and ruthless takeovers that prevail in the Hollywood version of business is the careful, organic and not a little complicated merger of old timer Morriss Printing, "medium timer" Rolex Plastics and relative newcomer Trafford Publishing, all under direction of Rolex Plastics founder Geoff Reid.

That operation is uniquely situated to reverse the flow of printing jobs off island.

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Dear Sharon: Our company will be downsizing soon and we have to make tough decisions about which employees to keep and which ones we should let go.

Besides obvious considerations like performance differences, what other factors should we consider?
W.

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The Best CAA

The British Columbia Automobile Association has again been chosen as one of Canada's 50 best employers. The list, compiled by international HR consultants Hewitt Associates for The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, is the only such ranking based entirely on employee opinions. It is the third consecutive year BCAA has received the distinction. This year, BCAA ranked 43rd on the Canada-wide list.

Take courage, everyone. The economy is teetering, no one knows what the future holds, yet we've got to manage better than ever before in order to right this foundering ship.

From the U.S., we're getting the message that Obama has courage, and he will surely need it.

Here at home, we need courage, too, in order to stay competitive in business and keep our economy afloat.

But how do we, in the business model, reward courage?

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Each week, the Financial Post profiles one winner of Waterstone Human Capital's 2008 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures program. This week, Gordon Nixon, chief executive and president of Royal Bank of Canada, told Sanam Islam how the bank demonstrated excellence in the five areas used to evaluate companies nominated for the program.

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Canada's stores doing better than those in U.S..

For Sadler, looking back on the summer of 2008, he shakes his head in wonder at how so many people came together with a single vision to save the Harmac mill (in Nanaimo) from closing, and how it was done in just four nerve-wracking months, when it could have taken years.

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CARE highlights a specific industry in each issue of HOT LMI. Industry Profiles provide an overview of labour market information pertaining to the various sectors of the Canadian economy. The profiles focus on human resources issues and look at how changes in the economy, research and development and technology, can affect an industry's labour force.

This issue's highlighted industry: Fisheries and Fisheries related Occupations