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Isabel Cole‐Hamilton, BSc, SRD, describes ways in which community dietitians are contributing towards nutrition education by providing resources and in‐service training for teachers, as well as going into schools to give talks and organise activities based on food and sensible eating

The London Food Commission has been set up, with initial funding from the Greater London Council, to liaise with Food Policy Groups in London and broaden the debate on issues around food and health which local policies are less inclined to tackle.

So, what can we eat? How many times have we heard this plaintive cry during discussions on nutrition and health? After expounding the horrors of fat, sugar, salt and insufficient dietary fibre and finding that most of the foods we buy are loaded with one or more of these demons our future eating possibilities can look pretty grim.

Each of us is born with a stock of health, much of whose value depends on how well our mothers fed and conducted themselves during pregnancy. As we grow up we become progressively more responsible for our own nutritional status. Or do we? No man is an island and members of minority groups know how difficult it is to comply with dietary laws. Pressures by the rest of society to conform with its current dietary patterns are most effective. Moreover it is often difficult to find out just what is on the cafeteria plate or the proportions of the various foods in the package or tin can.

This is the title of a very important new publication produced for the Inner London Education Authority and available for others who want an up to date view of what should be taught about nutrition in secondary schools. It provides an excellent background of modern views of nutrition and is attractively presented with many very helpful charts, diagrams and illustrations.

Tesco introduced their own healthy eating campaign in January last year by launching a comprehensive scheme of nutrition labelling on their own label products and linking the food labelling with a number of free leaflets on all the important aspects of healthy eating of which the consumer may need to be informed. These leaflets are shown in the photograph below. Carey Dennis, chief home economist and associate director at Tesco sent us this report on their healthy eating campaign during 1985.

Joan Richardson, MBE, District Health Promotion Officer in the Worcester and District Health Authority, summarises some of the papers given at a recent conference in her area at which specialists in nutrition, child development and biochemistry discussed key issues about food and growth of the pre‐school child

This chapter addresses authentic leadership at the intersection of tradition and modernity with a focus on insider-outsider dynamics. The authors develop a typology of insider-outsider perception of authentic leadership and four leadership types – detached leadership, integrative leadership, entrenched leadership and atomised leadership – to provide a conceptual tool that advances authentic leadership research and leadership-building strategies. Investigating the intersection of tradition and modernity, Lines and Turcan illustrate that authenticity and legitimacy are tightly coupled. Leaders need to develop insider legitimacy by alignment with contextual norms, traditions and customs. Lines and Turcan encourage future research to explore the question: Is leadership more about establishing contextual legitimacy or establishing authenticity?

This paper aims to describe knowledge productivity coaches and the approach Lockheed Martin has taken to ensure that its employees have the knowledge and skills needed to utilize its information system modeled after Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 concepts and technologies. This information system is branded Unity.

To train the employee population (∼140,000 employees) in using Unity, a small team of knowledge productivity coaches was formed, who in turn mentor and coach more than 100 Unity ambassadors. These ambassadors are responsible for helping employees to understand the Unity platform and to utilize its related tools. A multitude of learning options are offered including Collaboration Playbooks, unMeetings (informal lunch‐n‐learn sessions on a specific Unity topic), videos, quick, short jump‐start guides, one‐on‐one coaching sessions, and personal assistance in setting‐up key team and personal spaces within the Unity environment. While the system is in many ways intuitive, these ambassadors provide the “human” link to learning.

The adoption rate of Unity has increased exponentially. Unity spaces increased 51 percent during the rollout in the third quarter of 2009. Much of this growth can be attributed to knowledge productivity coaches and ambassadors providing the support employees need to utilize Unity to increase their performance and productivity.

This strategy of using knowledge productivity coaches and ambassadors can be repeated for any large system implementation in the future. The methods and processes can also be leveraged to save time and money for every new program utilizing the strategy. This paper details the strategy and processes for reuse.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the effects of expatriation on the development of career capital among the partners of expatriates.

The study draws on in-depth interviews with 30 Finnish partners of expatriates.

The results reflect the various learning experiences reported by partners of expatriates that developed their career capital during expatriation. The learning experiences related to the experience of living abroad itself and to the specific activities undertaken when abroad. The extent to which partners developed knowing-why, knowing-how and knowing-whom career capital was found to partly reflect their situation abroad as stay-at-home partners or as employees in less-demanding or more-demanding jobs. Though the experiences were developmental for all partners as have been reported among expatriates, the authors also identified several aspects in which partners' experiences differed from the typical developmental experiences of expatriates.

The results also highlight the influence of initiative, an active role and career self-management skills in partners' career capital development.

This paper advances the understanding of how expatriation affects expatriate partners' career capital, a topic that has not previously been studied in-depth.