Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless lovers, both male and female; exploring the Paris demimonde; even, strapped for cash, starting a beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages; $30), with both an embarrassment of riches and a Sisyphean task. Despite working on this book for nine years, Thurman, who won a National Book Award in 1983 for her biography of Isak Dinesen (and has been nominated again...
...sister problem of hiring good employees is keeping them. Fattening employees' paychecks is not always enough to get them to stay. Says Arnold Sanow, a small-business strategist and author of Entrepreneur Boot Camp: "Money is important, but you can get a job anywhere today. Why stay where you're not appreciated...
...huge costs associated with off-hours shiftwork. Industrial and other accidents resulting from exhaustion already cost U.S. industry and society over $77 billion a year. One of the most immediate effects is a growing demand on companies to show greater flexibility and creativity in designing jobs. Richard Coleman, author of The 24 Hour Business and president of a consulting group, advises firms "first of all to find out what their employees want and then choose schedules that fit the company's needs...
...they depart from the basic time clock dictated by their circadian rhythms. They also have more frequent job-related accidents and have to struggle harder to maintain their at-work focus. And when workers suffer, companies suffer. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CEO of Boston-based Circadian Technologies and author of The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, observes that the firms that have chosen to "push it to the max get hit later by the hidden problem of fatigue, burnout and stress." Sometimes the results can be disastrous. According to Moore-Ede, industrial deaths and injuries related to shiftwork cost...
Peggy Westfall-Lake, a consultant and author of Shiftwork Safety and Performance, is not about to let any accidents happen at the organization where she works, Williams, an Oklahoma-based energy and communications company. She firmly believes education and "fatigue-countermeasure training" can prevent the problems and costs caused by tiredness...