Word: behavior
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...Wedding works so well. There was a time, particularly in American movies, when the lives of the rich and the damaged were a common subject - almost a genre in itself, with the likes of Bette Davis or Joan Crawford facing the consequences of their pasts or the errant behavior of their soul-crushing relatives and trying to find true love and a reliable trust fund. The clothes, hair styles and decor of these films were alone worth the price of a ticket. And that says nothing about the attendant hysteria of their plots. These were stories for grown...
...argument that jerks exact a cost to the bottom line as they single-handedly corrode an organization's cohesion. An IT company he mentions went so far as to calculate a star salesman's TCA--total cost of asshole--by totting up expenses attributed to his behavior. Turnover, legal bills and anger-management courses rang up a TCA of $160,000. So the company jerked some of the jerk's bonus...
...fired. It happened to Terrell Owens. And to Bobby Knight. Donald Rumsfeld got us mired in Iraq, but all the talk after his booting was about his sneering intransigence. Rupert Murdoch canned Judith Regan after her much booed O.J. Simpson memoir, but the publishing exec's rude behavior apparently sealed the deal. Sutton tells of law firms and Wall Street shops now purging their louts. As more corporations adopt codes of conduct that outlaw boorishness, we may see managers stapling the broken contract to the pink slip...
That's a shame. Sure, beastly bosses have shaved months off my life. But they have also been some of the most gifted people I've known. This correlation occurs with reason: talented people can get away with much worse behavior. I don't want to enable monsters. In fact, I don't want to interact with them. But neither do I want to work in an office staffed solely with smiley faces. Imagine American Idol without Simon, House without House, Family Guy without Stewie. Colleagues of Steve Jobs bear the scars, but wouldn't you prefer him on your...
...reprehensible, unless the specific content clearly damages the student’s educational development. In this case however, the ban on sexual discourse certainly fails to meet that standard; rather, the restriction is plainly motivated by Utah’s conservative standards of “socially appropriate behavior,” a standard that the bill’s co-sponsor, State Senator D. Chris Buttars, seeks to enforce in schools. The law will also put principals in the precarious position of constantly making delicate value judgments. Not surprisingly, the State Board of Education opposed the law for this...