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...much to do, so little time. And it doesn't help that the guy down the hall is always dropping by your cubicle to share unsolicited lawn-care tips. Then there are the phone, the e-mail, the micromanaging boss to deal with. On a typical day office workers are interrupted about seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which are considered trivial, according to time-management experts. "We pride ourselves on being multitaskers, but the truth is, we're functioning at a state of partial attention," says John White, international program director...
Hearing such allegations, Beach tears up all over again. His incompatibility with his old job, he says, crystallized for him after a difficult early December meeting with his boss, J. Neil Alexander, the Episcopal bishop in Atlanta. "It hit me like a slap in the face. If I stayed, I'd lose my soul," he says. He claims that aspects of his new situation weren't finalized until just before or just after his announcement. In any case, he didn't want to share preliminary planning with his flock because "it would be manipulative. I could have roused...
...huge orchid-covered chandelier and the honchos from Gucci owner Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, including CEO Serge Weinberg and new Gucci Group CEO Robert Polet, mingled in the crowd, the chatter was all about how Tom Ford's replacement, onetime Gucci design director Alessandra Facchinetti, would fill her former boss's big shoes. As it happens, Facchinetti had also been bitten by the travel bug, offering Indian-inspired sari dresses and fringe-embroidered skirts. She didn't rock the boat, choosing instead to stick to Ford's sexy, slender Gucci image in a solid debut. "It's time for Gucci...
...Brien cut his teeth in comedy as president of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. In fact, O’Brien first met Zucker, his current boss, one day when O’Brien and the Lampoon editors stole all the copies of that morning’s Crimson. Zucker, then Crimson President, called the police and met O’Brien face to face while he was being arrested...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who is Gross’ boss, did not respond to requests for comment yesterday...