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William A. Strauss ’69 is co-founder and director of the Capitol Steps, playwright of three musicals and co-author of nine books, including Generations and Millennials Rising...
...every team has Barry Bonds, so don't wait for the upper-deck smash. That's the message of Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business, the latest from Ram Charan, a noted consultant and co-author of the best-selling Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Charan argues that executives should look for "singles and doubles" to steadily enhance revenues, such as Dell's efforts to improve inventory turns, instead of industry-altering ideas. The tool for smacking a line drive is the "growth budget," which allocates specific resources to achieve targeted gains. "This discipline can change the whole...
Workouts of the imagination can help too. "Take a vacation; make out in the car," sex therapist Cynthia Lief Ruberg, co-author of Pathways to Pleasure (PEC Publishing; 223 pages), tells elderly clients who complain they're in a rut. Or try new ways of doing the same old thing. In Married Lust: 10 Secrets of Long-Lasting Desire (Hearst Books; 224 pages), Pamela Lister and the editors of Redbook prescribe new sex positions, from tender to kinky, as "a perfect antidote to the encroaching dullness of routine." (Their survey shows women favor the missionary position, while men tend...
...harder-core material. Cyberporn is even giving rise to a new form of sexual compulsiveness. According to Alvin Cooper, who conducts seminars on cybersex addiction, 15% of online-porn habitues develop sexual behavior that disrupts their lives. "The Internet is the crack cocaine of sexual addiction," says Jennifer Schneider, co-author of Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy or Obsession...
...satisfaction can come in unexpected ways. As Peggy Brick, co-author of New Expectations, a frank handbook for sex counselors for seniors from SIECUS (the Sexual Information and Education Council of the United States), points out, "What's appropriate sexual behavior for a 21-year-old is not appropriate for a 70-year-old." Given the diminished male ability to produce erections, many older couples rely on what sex counselors call "outercourse." Instead of penetration, says Brick, who at 75 remains an active sex educator, outercourse involves other types of pleasuring, such as touching and cuddling. "[Without] the pressure...