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Quotation[0] = "Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid-1970s, they are not widely expected, and even accepted.  It doesn’t have to be that way. - Louis Uchitelle, The Disposable American:  Layoffs and Their Consequences.";
Quotation[1] = "...it often takes companies 12 to 18 months before the financial benefits of layoffs kick in, because of severance costs and more effects including the negative effects on survivor productivity. - Debunking Layoff Myths, Bain & Company Study of S&P 500 firms, during 2000 and 2001.";
Quotation[2] = "There are times when layoffs are unavoidable.  But in most cases, too many organizations go about them in unnecessarily distressing ways. - Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.";
Quotation[3] = "Poet Maya Angelou said it well:  I’ve learned in my life that people will forget what you said; they’ll even forget what you did.  But people will never forget how you made them feel.";
Quotation[4] = "Think layoffs will fix what ails your firm?  They might be the cause of bigger problems. - Chris Atchison, PROFIT magazine, March 2009.";
Quotation[5] = "The challenge is less in executing the layoffs than in managing the survivors.  Some 74% of workers surveyed said their productivity dropped after layoffs, and 87% said they were less likely to recommend their firm as a good place to work.  The top words they used to describe their post-layoff emotions:  guilt, anxiety, and anger.  Happy to have a job didn’t make the cut. - Leadership IQ, a Washington, D.C.-based training firm, recent survey, March 2009.";
Quotation[6] = "America’s regions face new challenges from their competitors around the world.  Competing in the global economy requires creating regional innovation ecosystems that drive growth and prosperity.  Many regions have yet to fully understand the competitive value of the asset base...an asset map is a systematic process to ensure that assets are sufficiently linked and leveraged. - Deborah Wince-Smith, President, The Council on Competitiveness";
Quotation[7] = "Psychologist and psychiatrists are just beginning to recognize that layoffs chip away at human capital by eating at self-esteem on a mass scale. It is like acid rain eroding the environment... -  Dr. Theodore J. Jacobs, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine in New York.";
Quotation[8] = "Peter F. Drucker, The Practice of Management: To raise output year after year, the enterprise must demand something much bigger than a fair day’s labor.  It must demand, over and above fairness, willing dedication.  It cannot aim at acquiescence.  It must aim at building aggressive esprit de corps.  That only happens when workers feel secure in their jobs.";
Quotation[9] = "America’s regions face new challenges from their competitors around the world.  Competing in the global economy requires creating regional innovation ecosystems that drive growth and prosperity.  Many regions have yet to fully understand the competitive value of the asset base...an asset map is a systematic process to ensure that assets are sufficiently linked and leveraged. - Deborah Wince-Smith, President, The Council on Competitiveness";
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