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...this respect, NBC has a lot in common with print media. I recently talked with a neighbor annoyed about the number of typos she said she's been seeing in the New York Times. The editors are probably stretched thin, I said; the Times just went through a big round of layoffs. That's terrible, she agreed. Anyway, she said, she was going to drop her weekday subscription. Why should she pay all that money and get typos...
...example of a player who has made himself great with steroids" later that year, Canseco shrugged off the charge; he went on to be named American League MVP. (He would later admit to doping from as early as 1985, saying steroids in late-1980s and 1990s baseball were as common "as a cup of coffee...
Another free exercise is to gather your team, give everybody a blank 3-by-5 card, and have everyone write down the organization's purpose. In some places you're going to have people pretty aligned on a common purpose. In other places, 35 employees will think the company has 35 different purposes. Or worse, 31 of 35 employees will have no idea what the purpose of this organization...
...Because having a hired driver is also common practice among India's socioeconomic élite, BMW also had to change its sales pitch to suit a buyer who might never even sit in the driver's seat. "When we get in contact with a customer, we show the backseat as well," says Kronschnabl. "We don't only focus on the driving experience because the [hired] driver experiences the driving; the owner experiences the backseat." Because the backseat rather than the driver's seat is a big selling point, unlike in most markets, bigger and more expensive BMW 5 Series sedans...
...have long been employed to work in the citrus orchards there. The hours are long, and the wages average less than $30 a day. When Fabrizio Gatti, a journalist for the Italian newsweekly L'Espresso, posed as a migrant worker in 2006, he uncovered a world where beatings were common and exploitation was rife. "You have no contract - no rights," Gatti says. "So if they don't pay you, you cannot go to the police...