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...mistakes do not lead to improvement when management passes the buck. Not only does the blame game increase the likelihood that companies will repeat the error, it can also turn off investors. A recent study by the Stanford Business School showed that the stocks of firms that publicly accepted responsibility for a down year instead of blaming external, uncontrollable forces tended to do better the following year. Indeed, the truest test of management may be its response to the challenges of failure--its ability to learn from its own or its peers' mistakes and take appropriate action. With that...
...band provided lush backing to her slightly raspy, occasionally soulful vocals. The performance set the stage for the rest of the night: behind the ethereal music and her slightly quirky vocals, the band rocked out, with her guitarist seeming even to borrow some moves from R.E.M. axe-man Peter Buck...
...alert, constantly taking in everything yet letting very little slip. The rest of the band took their cues from the frontman. They seemed to start off almost a little weary and subdued (leaving questions about the absence of Peter Buck’s signature guitar poses), but soon enough Buck himself was leaping in the air, and bassist Mike Mills was smiling beatifically beneath his ever-wilder hair...
...energy remained high and the crowd ecstatic through “Imitation of Life” and “Final Straw” (which featured some wickedly driving, syncopated drums), and when Buck took out the mandolin for “Losing My Religion,” the crowd was singing every word, watching every move, and cheering every note. On the set closer “Life and How to Live It,” a true shoulda-been-a-hit from 1985’s Fables of the Reconstuction, the band went just a tad overboard, with...
...might think from R.E.M.’s recent CDs that the trio has softened in their old age, but live, they remind the audience that rock ‘n’ roll is in their bones, and that even dinosaurs like Stipe, Buck and Mills can still rock with the best of them...