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There is a touch of mischief mixed in with his boardroom appearance. His darting mannerisms are not those of nervousness, but of a boyish restlessness, masking a powerful intellect. He is less successful at concealing triumph. Last week after the Hughes deal was announced, Smith walked with a spring in his step, bearing the happiest of inner smiles...
...Neon," a photographic exhibit mounted by the Smithsonian Institution, has been touring the country for 21 months, and a book with the same title by the show's curator, Design Writer Michael Webb, has gone to a second printing. At the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, after a boardroom battle over its appropriateness, a pink neon street sign was installed in place of the museum's Plexiglas one. "After all," says Board President Helyn Goldenberg, "we are a contemporary institution...
Fleming contends that top management must set moral standards and enforce them. "It really starts with the chief executive officers," he says. "They have to convince employees that they want ethical behavior." Other experts, however, doubt that employee actions can be controlled from the boardroom. Says Thomas Donaldson, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago who has studied business ethics: "What we're seeing, as corporations get larger and larger, is a breakdown in the lines of accountability. We've created some superstructures in business that are wild- ly complex, and we haven't tamed them...
...Indeed, the dramas inside the company have often been more riveting than those that have come out as movies. Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders, caused hearts to pound just by walking down the hall. Zanuck left in 1956, but returned in triumph six years later, following a boardroom coup in the wake of the Cleopatra debacle. He made his son Richard president, then kicked him out, only to be forced aside himself a few months later. (Richard had another stint at Fox, and coproduced such films as The Sting and Jaws.) While other studios, like Paramount and Columbia...
...series (Sales Edge, Management Edge, Negotiation Edge and Communications Edge) have been available for more than a year, although at $250 and up they have never sold particularly well. But Human Edge recently came out with a $50 program called Mind Prober that took the concept out of the boardroom and into the boudoir. When supplied with a few dozen descriptive adjectives about an individual, Mind Prober will concoct an instant character analysis that includes a report on his or her romantic attitude. Backed by some come-hither ad copy ("We'll get you into her mind. The rest...