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...engineering corporate culture--with real-life examples of success and failure. To explain the importance of preparation before Day One, for instance, Neff and Citrin cite Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, who, realizing she knew relatively little about finance, enlisted the director of financial analysis to give her a crash course in "Balance Sheet 101." To underscore the value of communication, they reveal that Gap CEO Paul Pressler kept a weblog as he visited stores around the country, assessing the retailers' culture and practices and trying his hand at tasks crucial to their operations. ("Stock replenishment," Pressler noted in an entry...
...years from 18 until 25 and even beyond have become a distinct and separate life stage, a strange, transitional never-never land between adolescence and adulthood in which people stall for a few extra years, putting off the iron cage of adult responsibility that constantly threatens to crash down on them. They're betwixt and between. You could call them twixters...
There needed to??be??a??monster. That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain...
...island a deadly (unseen) monster. Fine. A lot of writers might have done that. But with Abrams, there was also a polar bear in the jungle. There was a mad Frenchwoman marooned on the island for 16 years. There was a scary Canadian guy named Ethan living among the crash survivors, although he was not on the plane's manifest. "We were saying from the beginning, 'This is the level of reality we're dealing with,'" says Abrams. "If you're not up for that, you won't like where the show goes...
Ravaged en masse by what Donato labeled “a nasal infection,” Harvard’s skaters were noticeably a step slower than usual, struggling to crash the net and generate traffic just beyond the Wildcats’ netminder Tuomas Tarkki’s crease. Soft rebounds left on Tarkki’s doorstep that would otherwise have been pounced upon and poked home were regularly corralled by Northern Michigan’s blueliners and cleared from harm’s way with minimal challenge from the Crimson’s forwards...