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...three weeks later, Memphis shipped the nine-year veteran to the Los Angeles Clippers for high-scoring forward - and perennial troublemaker - Zach Randolph. Three days after that, the Clips moved Richardson to the Minnesota Timberwolves for three nondescript bench warmers. Finally (we think), on Aug. 13 Minnesota gave Richardson better weather, and a better shot at the postseason, by trading him to Miami for journeyman Mark Blount. TIME chatted with Richardson about his dizzying summer...
...ever encountered ads for "fresh" ground beef or "pizza" by the slice, you know all too well the scourge of inappropriate quotation marks. And no one mocks misplaced punctuation better than the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. (See the 25 best blogs...
Each year, thousands of the country's most promising future professionals graduate with M.B.A.s and clamor for positions at élite consulting firms. They could do much better things with their time, argues Matthew Stewart, and, as a former consultant, he should know. After earning a Ph.D. in German philosophy, Stewart stumbled into the consulting field and spent eight years as a high-priced business expert - even helping to found a consulting firm before becoming disillusioned with the industry. He chronicles his corporate misadventures in a new book, The Management Myth, and explained to TIME why the philosophers of yesterday...
...authors like Rousseau and Shakespeare offer better management lessons than most management consultants today. Why is it more valuable to study philosophy than business? Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science. Look at Rousseau - all his writing is about how to build a social contract and a foundation for trust, for integrity, for ethics. When I have managerial issues I think more about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke than I do about [management writer] Michael Porter or someone like that...
...rethink how it can start to prepare for the next drought. Sunita Narain of the Centre for the Study of the Environment in New Delhi advocates a new, national water policy to make farmers less vulnerable to the vagaries of the monsoon, encompassing more effective use of groundwater, better monitoring of weather patterns and water supply, implementing village water-security plans, and encouraging conservation and water recycling in the cities. In a recent editorial she wrote, "We must learn, fast, how to reinvigorate our water policy keeping in mind the two big changes - more variable rainfall and desperately growing water...