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...pleased to announce a change in management," intones a somber-looking display advertisement. But behind the familiar type and layout style is not the characteristically purposeful lineup of executives in a boardroom. Instead, a body in a business suit crashes out through a skyscraper window...
Feelings of impending doom, however, are not in evidence inside RCA. A key reason is Bradshaw. Drawing upon a calm management style honed during 17 years as president of the Los Angeles-based Atlantic Richfield oil company, the new boss, 64, has put an end to years of boardroom intrigues at RCA and given the firm a badly needed sense of renewed confidence in its own future. Says he: "What I have been doing is spending a lot of time finding out what kind of a company this is so that we can decide where we are going...
...ambition in life." Nor does it make much nevermind to the people waiting in line at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. And obviously they are not overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people feeling the strain are those innocents who tune in National Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion for the first time and lack directions to visit all their new-heard friends in Lake Wobegon...
...unorthodox consultant brings Freud into the boardroom...
...work, the deal seemed set. On Sunday night of the July Fourth weekend, Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson flew from his headquarters in Wilmington, Del., aboard a King Air twin-engine turboprop to Stamford, Conn., for a midnight meeting with Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey in that company's boardroom rotunda. Just after 1 a.m. the two weary, rumpled chief executives settled final details, sealed the agreement with a handshake and retired to Bailey's office for a round of Scotch and bourbon. Du Pont was paying some $7 billion in cash and stock for Conoco. The union could...