Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diverse as members of any other generation, especially because theirs ranges in age from 40 down to 22, Thomas believes there are strong ties that bind, chiefly rock 'n' roll and the changing role of women. Says he: "My first editor at TIME was a woman. Before that, my boss on the Harvard Crimson was a woman. At law school, one-third of my class was female. In fact, I met my wife in civil-procedure class." Had he belonged to the older generation, Thomas might have really believed that, as Rocker Cyndi Lauper says, "Girls just want to have...
Often the boss himself will grab the limelight and ham it up. Barry Ross, 43, owner of Houston's Superior Waterbeds, was watching a disk jockey tape a spot for his firm seven years ago when he got frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like...
...woman's place in public," she told a friend, "is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight." Bess did read the Congressional Record, but she let Harry hog the headlines and cringed at his public references to her as "the Boss." For him, though, she was. She died in 1982, nearly ten years after Harry, and was buried beside him in Independence. "I like the idea," he once told the Boss, "because I may just want to get up some day and stroll into my office. And I can hear you saying...
...small village (pop. 2,200) in northeastern Italy where she was raised. But beneath that traditional exterior, Danieli, 43, is a lady who confounds expectations. As the chief executive of Danieli of Buttrio, a leading builder of steel mills and manufacturer of steelmaking equipment, she is a high-heeled boss in a hard-hat world--and a remarkably good boss at that. While much of the global steel industry has been depressed for almost a decade, Danieli has achieved phenomenal growth, earned record profits and built a worldwide reputation for excellence in an exacting field...
...sense, Danieli was born to be a boss. The company was founded in 1914 by her grandfather Mario Danieli and his brother Timo, who made steel in a primitive furnace. As late as 1955, the firm had only 40 employees. It began to expand during the 1960s under Cecilia's father Luigi, who moved the company from steel production into steel-plant engineering and construction. Luigi had four daughters, but the only one interested in the firm was Cecilia, who started in 1965 as an assistant to her father. Now 72, Luigi has let Cecilia bring in a team...