Word: adaptability
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...exit strategy from Iraq has always been to install a stable, friendly Iraqi government whose oil revenues would give it financial independence and withdraw the bulk of the force that had overthrown Saddam's regime. But the scale of the challenge of remaking Iraq forced Washington to adapt its plans. When U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer arrived to take the reins from the hapless Jay Garner he chose to keep political authority in U.S. hands rather than betting prematurely on any Iraqi group. To the chagrin of most of Iraq's many political factions, Bremer has put talk of a transitional...
...Trondheim. "I did not feel as if things would change for the better at home," Günther says. He's now "happy to have time" for his patients again - despite working shorter hours than in Berlin, where 45 hours a week is common. For Günther, adapting to his new working environment meant slowing down from the "mad pace" he was used to at his old, understaffed hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigr...
...first part of Project ADAPT was criticized for being “user-hostile,” and as administrators looked ahead to the next phase—the HR Project—they said they had learned their lesson: they would consult more with users and make the new systems more friendly...
Nevertheless, the transition to Peoplesoft had many of the same problems as the transition to Project ADAPT. There seemed to be, at least temporarily, a breakdown in communication between the administrators implementing the system and the users—or at least the student users—of the new system...
...Neither project [ADAPT nor HR] was done to save money,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Both were necessary to replace outdated and inadequate administrative systems that were well past the end of their useful lives...