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Last weekend, gaming also got Landry fired from his job at the Extension School computer lab. He had been letting game-playing buddies into the lab, but when the boss found out that the students were learning confidential lab passwords, the practice--and Landry's job--came to an abrupt...
...first break came from a Republican boss, Joseph Blatchford, who took over the Peace Corps in 1969 and needed a new secretary. "The job was a crucial one. I had 10,000 people spread out over 68 countries, and I needed a reliable, efficient person," he says. "I didn't ask if she was a Republican or Democrat. I wasn't interested because she was so good." She stuck with Blatchford when he moved to ACTION, the federal agency that ran the Peace Corps, and stayed there through three directors, building her own network among the people who sit just...
This is the world that our protagonist, Lloyd, inhabits. "You don't do this deal because it makes sense," says Lloyd's boss, Doug; "you do it because it can be done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate...
MICHAEL OVITZ Back from limbo and on Broadway, where he'll give his regards to ex-boss Michael Eisner...
...could Gates become the world's de facto banker? "I don't have any interest in bringing Microsoft into that arena," says Dusche. "Frankly, it's a really tough business." But his boss is a really tough businessman. As banking evolves into a competitive, complex business conducted over the Internet, Microsoft software--just as in the PC era--could become ever more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates...