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When he co-founded Standard in 1870, the oil fields of western Pennsylvania--the heart of the new industry--were in a chaotic state as gluts dragged down prices below production costs. Rockefeller then began to employ the tactics that made him a legend. Imposing his own granite discipline on the industry, he bought up rivals, modernized plants and organized the oil industry on an enduring basis...
Alfred Sloan literally wrote the book on managing large organizations--My Years with General Motors. No large company is untouched by his concept of decentralized management. He came into a GM that was cash short, chaotic and nearly bankrupt--Ford had a 60% market share--and brought discipline to a sprawling company, clearly defining the issues of planning, strategy and organization. He mastered the concept of market segmentation--Chevrolets for Everyman, Cadillacs for the wealthy--to better target GM's sales and avoid internal competition, a strategy that left Ford behind. Sloan also understood what managers today call "consumer insight...
...evening opened with the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, which the ABT commissioned and premiered in 1987. The lively piece has three movements and includes four main couples and a corps de ballet of 16. The choreography consists of numerous lifts and turns, and at times the corps looked chaotic and stiff rather than organized and fluid. The male corps dancers, in particular, were incredibly strong and their jumps incredibly high. The lead couples included both principal and corps de ballet dancers. Though each couple was excellent, the refinement and artistry of the principal dancers stood out in contrast...
...loads up, arming themselves with high-tech crossbows, metallic lances and machine guns. Crow, his face a weather-beaten mask of intensity, glares into the camera. The group's tag-along priest blesses them over the Holy Bible. The team then storms the mansion and the resulting melee is chaotic and bloody, consisting mostly of vampires getting harpooned and dragged outside by a Jeep winch, where they burst into flames and are reduced to a pile of ashes. It's a crummy job, but somebody's gotta...
...obsessed and grieving, not over a recent divorce, but about the loss of Martha, her best friend and distant cousin. Martha is not dead, she just disappeared somewhere along the line. Martha was not Jane's friend but rather her idol, the object of her admiration. Jane's chaotic and slightly overbearing mother sends docile Jane into the Galapagos Islands in hopes her daughter will get over the emptiness, where her tour guide is, not surprisingly--Martha! This is not the ending. It is only the beginning of this book that struggles to evolve...