Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, it's not yet clear that every boss is ready to be such a solicitous suitor. "The labor market is tight, but we haven't got to the point where people are so valuable that they would entice companies to engage in a bidding war," argues Bob Liu of HotJobs.com Others contend that no firm would be willing to make a bet solely on the basis of a virtual resume. Networking giant Cisco, which does two-thirds of its hiring via the Net, says it isn't interested in bidding online for corporate mercenaries...
Since the talent market launched a month ago, some 35,000 customers, from programmers to Elvis impersonators, have filled out their profiles, eagerly awaiting an offer they can't refuse. Unlike traditional auctions, though, bids aren't binding--there is more to picking a new boss than simply finding the right salary. So once the auction period ends--anywhere from one to five days--an accepted bid sets the stage to close the deal. "It gives you a starting point," says David Braverman, of Woodmere, New York, who runs a marketing agency and, after a week on the site...
...squeamish about offsites. The corporate retreat from hell was memorialized on an episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer and the other workers at Springfield's nuclear-power plant head up snow-covered Mount Useful in pairs, competing to be first to reach a cabin at the top. The boss cheats, the employees just want free sandwiches, and an avalanche sabotages the whole thing. In the real world, climbing a mountain or learning to handle a kayak with someone you've barely met or, even worse, someone you see at the office every day can be just as lame. Toss...
...from the rest of the kitchen converge around Oberdorfer to help finish the cookies. Before they started cooking, the group split into two- or three-person teams that would, to their surprise, switch places at the appetizer, entree and dessert stations. The job shuffle was designed to address their boss's desire for them to share tasks better. It wasn't always easy. The first shift had a communications crisis: "The recipe says broil, but the oven's on bake!" (The incoming veggie team hadn't been debriefed on a menu change...
Counselors provided guidance at each station, helping teams determine how to save time. But guidance was as limited a resource as time and ingredients; the group had help for only one hour to make their two-hour deadline. They had to husband their consulting time to meet the boss's goal of spending money more carefully...