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...Leslie Wexner, the iconic founder and CEO of the Limited Brands, who built the company into a $10 billion retailer largely on the premise that people are willing to pay more for perceived quality. In the 1960s, when middle America bought clothes at department stores, Wexner started a boutiquey chain of shops called the Limited. But now that competitors have flooded the specialty apparel scene and mall fashion has gone commodity, Wexner is changing his game, looking for growth from personal care at Bath & Body Works, from lingerie at Victoria's Secret--which is undergoing aggressive expansion...
...exactly, do you trade up an entire company? First, you stop the downward spiral. When Fiske took over Bath & Body Works in February 2003, same-store sales were skidding, having dropped 3% in 2002 and 11% the year before. Former CEO Beth Pritchard built the chain from nothing to 1,600 stores and $1.8 billion in revenue in just 10 years, but consumers were growing tired of folksy fare like Juniper Breeze shampoo gift baskets and were starting to find palatable alternatives in drugstores and discount chains, which had begun an upscale lurch of their own. Fiske came in, began...
Should blame be portioned out according to power--or proximity? And what about the legions of elected officials and bureaucrats stacked in between, the ones who are supposed to form a human chain from city hall to the Oval Office...
...need to start thinking of homeland security the way we think of national security, Ervin and others argue. That would mean billions more. But it also might mean a chain of command that made more sense. No one can say the military is functioning seamlessly these days, but there is, at least, someone in charge...
...officials to take only the most vital decisions to Bush and let the bureaucracy deal with everything else. Bush does not appear to tap sources deep inside his government for information, the way his father or Bill Clinton did, preferring to get reports through channels. A highly screened information chain is fine when everything is going well, but in a crisis it can hinder. Louisiana officials say it took hours for Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to reach Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly, according to White House officials). "His inner circle takes pride in being able...