Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engagement has just been announced, but skeptics wonder how long the honeymoon can last. Sally Quinn was out as co-host after four months in 1973; Phyllis George resigned after less than eight months in 1985. Instead of fretting over their boss's impatience, though, CBS staffers are pleased by the new, eternal challenge. Says one producer: "We went from being the class act of the morning to being the absolute laughingstock. Now we've got to regain what we had." And build...
They are rehearsing in excruciating detail how they will respond the next time the boss ushers them to a low couch and works over their egos like the mad dentist in Little Shop of Horrors...
...Room 212 at the A.M.A. center the assertiveness class is already under way. Our first volunteer is Karen, a 29-year-old specialist in inventory control, who is still trembling from a run-in with her boss, C.E. Ogre. In a role-playing session with her classmates, she relives the scene: Ogre looms over Karen's desk, throws down her latest report and thunders that while she may pretend she's turned around the El Paso situation, she is not fooling him. Karen's jaw drops, her head woggles in disbelief, and her voice quavers, "Are you calling...
Shoptalk in a class on managerial effectiveness: "I had a lunatic. I mean, he attacked his boss and chased him out of the building with a stool. Our attempt to fire him failed, so I asked him what he wanted, and he said, 'I want everybody to stay away from me. Everyone is impure.' It was The Twilight Zone. So I said, 'How would you like your own office...
Imagine dealing with nut cases and having to get your work done too. Suppose your boss has given you 20 people (19, not counting the lunatic), a $750,000 budget and a six-month deadline on a project that will determine whether the company survives...