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...emails a day when she has been away from the office. At Quarasan, an educational-product developer in Chicago, workers take "focus blocks" of up to three hours when they absolutely cannot be interrupted. "They know they don't have to jump when someone comes to their desk or have a Pavlovian response when the phone rings," says president Randi Brill. In any week, about 25% of the staff use the technique. Signs hang on cubicles, chairs or doors with such declarations as I AM FEELING TOTALLY FOCUSED RIGHT NOW. PLEASE RESPECT THIS PROCESS...
...view that France was too stuck in its ways to embrace the kind of dramatic change he envisions - lower taxes, flexible labor markets, more freedom for innovation and enterprise, more equality for minorities. "Is France reformable?" he asked himself, sitting at a long conference table with a dossier-laden desk at his back and a humidor stuffed with good cigars to his left. Then he lunged across the table to press home his point. "My reply is, without hesitation, yes. France not only can reform, it's waiting for it." France may not have to wait too long. Next month...
...also coerced Franco-German pharmaceutical giant Aventis into merging with French competitor Sanofi-Synthelabo, neither of which is state-owned, to thwart takeover plans by Swiss rival Novartis. "I'm conservative, liberal-inclined and I believe in market economics," Sarkozy says. "But when an issue lands on my desk, I don't spend time wondering what [David] Ricardo, Adam Smith or [Friedrich] Hayek would have done. Ideologies have been replaced by principles of realism and pragmatism, and I don't rule out the possibility to intervene when intervention is called for." Last month Sarkozy was in interventionist mode when...
Tilting nostalgically in his Harvard-issue desk-chair David B. Rochelson ’05—an English concentrator in Mather and Crimson News Executive —lasts much longer...
...hardcore, in fact, that I didn’t have time for basic maintenance or hygiene. I went three days without changing my shirt. I kept a toothbrush in my desk. I had Q-tips hidden behind my monitor. I once sat in my cloth swivel chair, hyped on free Coke and stuffed with the dinner I bought with my green corporate card, for the amount of time it took one of the senior guys in my office to fly back from his golf outing in Iceland. I’ll bet your employer didn’t even like...