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...once asked my boss for advice on dealing with people. Our conversation went something like this...
...late March, he still hadn't informed his directors. "He was treating his own board as an afterthought," says one source close to the outside board members. "It was very much the China of 20 years ago in the way the directors were treated initially?where the boss decides and the board just rubber-stamps everything. Why were they treated that way? I don't have a clue...
...wake of the bombings, what use will he make of it? An aide, who was more exhausted than his boss, said, "We haven't begun to think about what comes next"--although a controversial bill to require sophisticated ID cards will probably get a terrorism-inspired lease on life. But Blair's final term has been transformed. When he won re-election two months ago--his parliamentary majority was cut from 161 to 67, mostly because of anger over how he oversold the war in Iraq--there was much talk of his becoming a lame duck whose power would quickly...
...responses of the potential donors that my boss has asked me to call and ask to help fund our public awareness campaign have varied from a confused stutter to hanging up, except for the occasional individual who expresses interest in the issue. I can understand the rude and hostile reactions of these people to someone asking for money. But I wonder if I actually got the chance to talk to these people about the need for a public-awareness campaign to alert Americans to modern-day slavery, they still would not support the need for such an initiative...
Exxon shareholders are mostly on Raymond's side. The boss, after all, has delivered on profits 10 years running --to the tune of $25 billion in 2004 alone."We don't think the technology for renewables--whether solar or biomass--can support a profitable business," says Stuewer. Electricity generated by solar, she notes, is five times as expensive (for now) as that produced by gas or coal. Exxon is investing in Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project, she says, to develop breakthroughs in solar, biofuel, hydrogen and even coal technologies that could be offered cheaply and profitably to developing...