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...been a good exchange of new ideas," said David B. Martens, vice president and chief operating officer of Buckner News Alliance. "Rosabeth Moss Kanter's [professor of business administration] lecture was a good way to learn how to cope with change...
...person's Mickey Mantle is another person's Bill Buckner, and the thrilling smells of my youth proved anathema to a crucial segment of the baseball card market: professional card dealers. To his credit, Boyle confessed as much. And it's sad. The little kid is deprived of his soul-soothing scent so the big bad capitalist can protect his investment. Ain't that America...
...Exciting things are ultimately disruptive. I used to root enthusiastically for my favorite sports teams, but more often than not that just led to diappointment. Red Sox fans were quite excited when their team made it to the 1986 World Series. Most of them are still sulking about Bill Buckner's blunder. The truth is that they would have been much better off if the team had just won 75 games or so. Then they could have immediately begun complaining about the team's pitching woes and their prospects for the next season...
Yeah, he's right, I guess. Bill Buckner tookresponsibility for getting nutmegged in the WorldSeries. Jimmy Swaggart took responsibility for hissins before the Lord. Ronald Reagan tookresponsibility for Iran-gate. Well, at least heshould have. And I even recall a scrawny kid namedGrunwald blaming himself for blowing his highschool soccer team's 26-game winning streak bymissing an unmissable breakaway, but that'sanother column altogether...
While most of the errors are trivial or benign, others can wreak havoc. For the most part, people remain blissfully unaware of the problems until, like $ me, they are mysteriously stripped of a credit card or rejected for a loan. Says M.E. Buckner, president of Informative Research, a mortgage-credit- reporting company in Anaheim, Calif.: "There are mistakes in the system, and we have mechanisms to correct them, but you correct the system only when a consumer complains...