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What are the notions of niceness? Everything your mother told you: smile more, pay attention, cooperate, fine-tune your listening skills, collaborate and share credit. Being nice doesn't conflict with being a leader or making difficult choices. It's a question of style: "In the end, being a cheerleader is far more effective than being a drill sergeant," the book advises...
There are skeptics who still say nice can be a negative. Debra Condren, a psychologist and business coach, is one. "Sometimes women are too nice and let other people in the workplace steal their credit. They don't know how to stick up [for themselves]." In her new book, Am?BITCH?ous (Morgan Road), out in December, she views the bitch label as a component of admirable ambition. Her definition of ambitchous: a woman who "makes more money, has more power, gets the recognition she deserves, and has the determination to go after her dreams with ... integrity...
Humana offers customers several wellness components in their plans. One includes a point system, designed by British firm Virgin, in which a pedometer records an employee's movements. Each step, with extra credit for exercise activities, is converted into points that can buy music, sports equipment and even airline tickets. At Illinois-based International Truck and Engine Co., a similar program has its workforce racing CEO Daniel Ustian to better health. A quarter of its 17,000 employees put in 27 miles a week...
...Peter C. Shields ’09 presented “A Chorus Line,” which will run through Nov. 4, at the Agassiz Theatre on Friday night. If they had any new, daring artistic vision to justify the extra attention (an ordinary program credit just won’t do anymore?), I didn’t see it.When “A Chorus Line” works—and it does frequently work—it is not thanks to Noyer and Shields’ direction or production. It is thanks to individual cast members overcoming...
Tobe, to his credit, was able to quiet the Dartmouth offense for the entire third period...