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Brabeck pooh-poohs the notion that a company should focus tightly on its core competency. Nestle's big challenge, he says, "is that we have to be able to learn how to get operational efficiency with a relatively complex business structure. This is what I think real management is all about. The other thing is much too easy." Rather than narrow its focus, he believes that a well-managed and flexibly organized consumer-goods company can sell dog food and ice cream--as well as coffee, water and candy--and gain advantages in marketing, purchasing and distribution over more specialized...
...what’s going on now raises some questions,” he said. He also offered a dig at current finance professionals. “Nobody knows what they’re buying or selling,” he said. “Those instruments are so complex, they take a degree of expertise that is clearly beyond those who were buying them...
...Potter's headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, was outed posthumously, "We can only conclude that Dumbledore saw his homosexuality as shameful" [Nov. 5]. I'd like to suggest a much more radical conclusion: Dumbledore saw his homosexuality as irrelevant. So do I. Sexual preference is only one component of the wonderful, complex beings that we are. Leading an exemplary life and helping others are far more important to me than introducing myself by saying, "Hi, I'm Jennifer, and I'm a lesbian." Jennifer P. Jonsson, dallas...
...senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate it, and if the book is complex, write about it in the simplest terms possible. Like Joyce, modern classical music, with its clashing harmonies and deliberately inscrutable structure, has become a locus for dissent between intellectual elites and the hoi polloi. You either get it or you don’t, the conventional wisdom says, and neither side...
...toward adult tastes might want to sample the mojito cupcake. Topped with mint leaves and soaked with rum, this cupcake will leave any taster lovedrunk for the childishly adult snack.At the opposite end of the spectrum is the classically sweet cinnamon chai Pecan Sticky, which still offers a wonderfully complex eating experience. A more mature chai flavor provides a counterpoint to the childishly tactile delight of dipping one’s tongue into the sugary syrup that tops the cupcake. One bite of the simple-yet-refined chocolate and vanilla cupcakes will quickly send the eater back to the days...