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...Youstin has a solution: vacuum-pack the chicken, for a small additional cost, and keep it fresh enough to survive the extra four days of shipping. From the corporate headquarters, Youstin can quickly access the company's experts and key decision makers to craft a timely fix. Explains her boss, international COO Anthony Pavese: "We are ground zero. We have centralized the information base. We can't just jump on a plane every time we need something somewhere...
...talent has compelled a new way of thinking," says Tom Casey, head of the talent-management practice at Unifi Network, a PricewaterhouseCoopers division. Casey is based in Boston but oversees projects involving 40 people in eight countries "all over God's creation." He also advises other companies on virtual-boss setups. The biggest adjustment for U.S.-based managers, he says, is learning to trust out-of-sight employees. Just because they are in a land far away and aren't always right by the phone doesn't mean they are sipping umbrella drinks at the beach. Despite managers' fears, most...
Duluth Head Coach Shannon Miller was the boss behind the Canadian bench at the Olympics in 1998 when her team won a silver medal. Stacy Wilson, now an assistant coach at Duluth, was the captain of Team Canada. Manon Rheaume, who was Canada's starting goaltender in Nagano and was the first women to ever play in the NHL, is also an assistant...
...House, Bush soldiered on, "working out in the residence," reported press secretary Ari Fleischer at the time. With his training equipment installed in the White House, the President takes time nearly every day to feel the burn. We asked Fleischer to get details of the regimen from the Boss himself. Americans can sleep at night knowing our leader can kick any other leader's butt...
HOLDING OUT Hard to believe, but you may not be the only one your boss is underpaying. The IRS recently warned that more small-business owners are failing to withhold income and other taxes from their employees' paychecks. Some companies are even bragging on the Net or in seminars about how easily they get away with it, making spurious claims that the taxes apply only to foreign corporations. Offenders caught in the new crackdown could face time in jail and severe fines. But working stiffs don't get off the hook either. In the event that your boss manages...