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...name: Estee Lauder, Prescriptives, Clinique, Origins and Aramis. The company has even bought hot new lines such as M.A.C., Bobbi Brown Essentials and Tommy Hilfiger fragrances. Lauder's company may not be able to set trends, but it is never going to be left behind by them. The boss--and her son after her--would never allow it. Says the company's vice chairman Jeanette Wagner: "No matter how she aged in years, she was still the youngest thinker in the room...
Having a mean, stupid boss is part of the fun of working. It's what bonds you to your fellow employees, even your fellow Americans. Who wants to be the guy at the bar who pipes up with "Actually, my boss brings me a bear claw and a mochachino every morning...
...parent company, Gulf + Western. Meanwhile in the Bronx, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner was taking delight in firing people. He is so paradigmatic of impetuous power (throwing tantrums, bad-mouthing employees in the press, hiring a spy to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield) that he's simply called the Boss--and not in a hip, Bruce Springsteen...
Wall Street's favorite boss today is the power tool who can shred humanity like an old memo to "create value." GE's Jack Welch, soon after becoming CEO, earned the label "Neutron Jack" for closing plants and laying off workers. He's a prince compared to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. A West Point graduate and former paratrooper, Dunlap struck like Sherman and crowed about it. At Lily Tulip he fired 50% of the corporate office; at Crown-Zellerbach, 20% of the work force; at Scott Paper, 11,000 employees. After firing 6,000 at Sunbeam, Chainsaw himself got axed...
...bosses have often been unbearable and will continue to be. "The caveman who sat around the fire and picked up the stick and hit the other guys on the head became the leader, and things haven't really changed," explains Stanley Bing, author of Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving Them, Surviving Them. "The really great bosses are not really great human beings. Gandhi was a terrible boss...