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...Avid readers of TIME.com's Person of the Week feature will find this week's subject familiar. On August 30, nearly seven months ago, we wondered whether the American Consumer - enriched by mortgage refinancing but jarred by layoff announcements - would spend enough to keep the weakest U.S. economy in a decade from slipping into recession...
Under the leadership of Yun Jong Yong, an avid disciple of American management gurus like Jack Welch, the electronics company laid off a third of its work force, or about 30,000 people, slashed costs and dropped sideline businesses like pagers and electric coffeepots. Yun recruited top managers and engineers from the U.S. Back in Seoul, recruits were put through a four-week boot camp in which they were awakened before 6 a.m. every day to martial anthems extolling the virtues of being a Samsung man. Marathon mountain hikes were part of the drill...
...Under the leadership of Yun Jong Yong, an avid disciple of American management gurus like Jack Welch, the electronics company laid off a third of its work force, or about 30,000 people, slashed costs and dropped sideline businesses like pagers and electric coffeepots. Yun recruited top managers and engineers from the U.S. Back in Seoul, recruits were put through a four-week boot camp in which they were awakened before 6 a.m. every day to martial anthems extolling the virtues of being a Samsung man. Marathon mountain hikes were part of the drill...
Under the leadership of Yun Jong Yong, an avid disciple of American management gurus like Jack Welch, the electronics company laid off a third of its work force, or about 30,000 people, slashed costs and dropped sideline businesses like pagers and electric coffeepots. Yun recruited top managers and engineers from the U.S. Back in Seoul, recruits were put through a four-week boot camp in which they were awakened before 6 a.m. every day to martial anthems extolling the virtues of being a Samsung man. Marathon mountain hikes were part of the drill...
...perform alchemy--to increase market share while cutting the budget and, oh yeah, delivering the news in a lively, interesting and accurate manner. Iger insists that he and Eisner give ABC News their full support. "We cheer them on," says Iger, "on a regular basis. We're constant and avid viewers. We oftentimes suggest things that are attempts to help news grow versus contract: we've urged on many occasions for more programming...so I take exception to any notion that there's a lack of support." The proof may well be in the time slot...