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...often in American business, that isn't the case. At one international hotel chain, workers told Yale researchers that interactions with management generated bad feelings 9 times out of 10. Most leaders have what Goleman calls "CEO disease"--they have no sense of how their moods affect the organization. One CEO of a European firm told Goleman: "I so often feel I'm not getting the truth. I can sense people are hiding information...
...these successful bosses recognized what Goleman considers an essential truth: "You don't leave emotions at the door when you enter the office, then pick them up again when you go home. If you think you can run rampant over people and it's not going to affect how well they can work, you're being naive." Now at least, the worst bosses, who are always looking for someone to blame, can't say they haven't been warned...
...Diplomatic Front The newest group of detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay knew one thing: they would not be treated as prisoners of war. But U.S. officials acknowledged that the decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to Taliban fighters, but not al-Qaeda members, would not materially affect their circumstances. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the step was rather intended as a "precedent for the future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access to food or medical...
...claims of righteousness. It seems that, finally, The Crimson has come around to recognize what many of us did back in the olden days: that the council is the only outlet for students’ day-to-day concerns at Harvard and should concentrate on these issues that directly affect its constituents, rather than serving as a forum for a few grandstanders to get their kicks by perching on their soapboxes, shaking their fists in the wind...
...hallways, colleagues respected and even feared Fastow's power--but not his presence. A former executive says he was never sure what Fastow was thinking other than how a particular project would affect his career. But, in the words of another former Enron manager, "he was Skilling's fair-haired...