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What is the world to think of this Jekyll-and-Hyde performance? Take, for example, the sage advice from Gates the author, who exhorts us to appreciate less-than-salutary tidings. "I have a natural instinct for hunting down grim news," he writes. "If it's out there, I want to know about it. The people who work for me have figured this...
...according to his own testimony, the software titan refused to read a word of it. Given the chance to reassess his videotaped Q. and A. in the light of its disastrous courtroom debut, CEO Gates conceded only that he should have "smiled a bit." As Gates the author would have told him: "A CEO avoiding bad news is the beginning...
...might think a man who has had his company e-mail captured by the government, read aloud in a courtroom and printed around the world would be put off electronic messaging for life. But Gates the author adores the medium. His ideal business model has management inundating its underlings with e-mails in a free-and-easy manner that would give some corporate lawyers a heart attack. "There's no doubt that e-mail flattens the hierarchical structure of an organization," he writes. "It encourages people to speak...
...narrator-heroine to endure the trials that occasionally strike the reader dumb with incredulity. Despite a few rough edges, the book manages to involve readers deeply in the emotional current of the story. While the novel falls down occasionally in the use of an inner-city dialect which author Connie Porter has trouble translating into text, the skilled use of deliberately, nakedly inelegant language and expressive imagery fills readers with the lyric of her tale and almost unwittingly immerses us in the complexities of Tasha's emotional life...
Taylor is currently a professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University and is the author of many books, including the well-known Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity...