Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one particularly intriguing chapter in the week's testimony. Last month Jack Anderson's assistant, Brit Hume, had appeared in ITT's Washington office and showed the original of the Beard memo to Mrs. Beard and her boss, ITT Vice President W.R. Merriam. According to Geneen and ITT Senior Vice President Howard Aibel, the Washington staff was ordered "to remove any documents that were no longer needed for current operations, as well as documents which, if put into Mr. Anderson's possession, could be misused and misconstrued by him so as to cause embarrassment...
...York has offered DeLury the job of sanitation commissioner more than once. His response to why he didn't take the job is typical: "What? Do you think I'm crazy? I'll never work for a boss; I answer only to my membership." Nor has his experience offering suggestions been very encouraging. "Sure I gave the city an idea once, and I got clobbered by the public for it," he says, referring to the time when he suggested that his men go on at 6 a.m. to take advantage of the less congested streets, thereby increasing production. The problem...
...chiefs of all the company's manufacturing divisions are under orders to appoint women to the next two management posts that open in their personnel departments. Personnel Boss Thomas Borrelli rejects the notion that women are bad management risks because they are more likely to leave than men. Says he: "The tendency has been to compare the turnover of managers with the turnover of secretaries. But if you look at the turnover of women managers, it is probably less than...
Miss Green began as a secretary, moved up fast by taking responsibilities from her boss's shoulders. She became a copywriter at Doyle Dane Bernbach, where, besides working on Avis, she helped memorialize Heinz' Great American Soups and Instant Quaker Oats. (The company originally wanted to call it "Quaker Instant Oats,'" but Miss Green, knowing how important the word "instant" is to kitchen-bound women, put it first.) Itching to go on her own, she two years ago set up Green Dolmatch with a pair of partners, one of them her engineer husband, now the agency...
Secretaries commonly complain that they are not challenged to stretch their minds or take initiative, and get little recognition when they do. "A secretary works hard at putting it all together, but the credit often goes to the boss," says a top secretary at a major New York-based pharmaceutical firm. Another almost universal gripe: being asked to serve as the office "go fer," who is sent out to buy coffee, cigarettes and the like. A secretary is both a necessity and a comforting luxury for many executives, who are terror-stricken at the prospect of having to do without...