Forty aviation organizations sent a letter Feb. 5 to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney seeking $10 million in funding for new grant programs to help with recruiting aerospace workers. The groups are concerned that the industry shortage could hurt growth and competitiveness.

The best way to transform company culture is to train all levels of an organization to reorient expectations of daily behaviors, writes Art Barter. When Barter became the CEO of Datron World Communications, his goal was to shift the company from a power leadership model to servant-based, and he saw during training that the people who succeeded with the new model were listening to understand, consciously giving value to others and sharing the process of this leadership transformation.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is proposing a bill that would require student loan payments to be automatically withdrawn from borrowers' paychecks and give students the option to choose a payment plan based a percentage of their discretionary income. The bill has raised privacy concerns as borrowers will have to let their employers know they have student loans.

An executive training program uses dogs to help managers improve leadership skills, including communication, teamwork, trust and problem-solving, among others. Participants--who wear blindfolds and let themselves get led by their dog trainer--say the experience taught them how to combat fear, extend trust and get out of their comfort zone, writes Jamie LaReau.

While many view words like "synergy" to be buzzwords, University of Michigan English professor Anne Curzan believes such jargon is a shortcut language that is useful to convey a sense of being an insider. People are annoyed by these words, on the other hand, because they can sound euphemistic or alienating.