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...talk about how winning strategies aren't transitive. What's the lesson for managers? One mistake managers make is they'll read a book that says: Here are the eight things great managers do. They figure if they just live up to those attributes then they'll succeed. Well, no. It's not the attributes that matter, it's the circumstances - what's going on around them. Almost all successful strategies are circumstance-based, not attribute-based. Boeing, for instance, a very smart company, had outsourced a lot of their products, but then they outsourced the design...
...take up to two weeks, which is like baking fresh bread and shelving it. HP has plans to shorten the lead time, but it's at the mercy of the postal service. Meanwhile, newsstands remain the point of purchase for most commemorative issues. Plus, although Powazek and the photographers aren't making any money off Strange Light, it costs eight bucks. (TIME's Jackson issue was $6.) Publishing on demand and MagCloud are clearly not going to solve all the woes that ail media. But Powazek looks like he's having a lot of fun trying...
Most of the posts on the site, though, aren't quite deserving of the FML moniker. To be honest, we go to Harvard; our lives really aren’t that rough...
...past two seasons. Between the excess of characters, nonsensical and repetitive plotlines, and the fact that continuity has been completely shot to hell, FlyBy is seriously hoping for an upward turn. Perhaps the volume's title "Redemption" is self-referential, but after watching this week's episode, we aren't getting our hopes...
...trying to shake down some drug dealer. But that's not important. What's important is that while inside this guy's house, Sylar shows up and starts totally screwing with Parkman's mind, in some cases saving his ass and in others making him see things that aren't there. But since, of course, the department doesn't know he's a telepath, Parkman has been telling everyone he's trying to kick the habit of "using...