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There's a porous nature, too, to the company's power structure. Swapping ideas, stepping in, hanging out are at the root of what has to be called the Pixar culture. The studio has working methods more in common with the dotcom companies in nearby Silicon Valley than with the movie industry down in Los Angeles. For a start, everyone who works there, from the executives to the cooks at Luxo Cafe (try the excellent sushi), is encouraged to take a filmmaking class and make a short film. This is part of Pixar president Ed Catmull's belief in "lifelong...
...addictive allure of high-speed Internet access at home-have made it all the harder to detach from work. Finally, when you consider the retrenchments and economic wipeouts that have set the temper of their working lives over the past decade-the financial crisis of 1997, the dotcom implosion of 2000, the downturn in the wake of SARS in 2003-it's easy to see why Asian men have prioritized work. "Since 1997, it's not been possible to get a bonus," says Wong, the Hong Kong buyer and father of four. Spurred by the fear that their incomes will...
...France is like an old lady. It is paralyzed by the fear of what it could lose." Jacques Deguest puts it even more bluntly. He's a friend of Cellot's who moved to Tokyo in 2001 after a web-hosting company he started in France collapsed in the dotcom crash. It was a bitter experience, and he says he has no intention of ever returning. "France is like a restaurant where the food is fantastic, the best of everything, but the comfort and the service are zero, zero, zero - and the bill is exorbitant," says Deguest, 37. "I love...
From its founding in 1986, the Tom Peters Co., based in Cincinnati, Ohio, waxed and waned with business cycles, with Peters promoting the company at varying levels of intensity. After the dotcom bust, Peters' high-risk, big-payoff consulting projects, which preached blowing up business-as usual, were less in vogue. The bulk of the company's business was in its safer leadership training, mostly using non-Peters material that emphasized behavioral assessment and leadership preparation. In 2004, Peters, who had moved his personal life from California to Vermont, decided that "it was silly to have a company in Cincinnati...
...organic goodies, such as his daily dose of Kagome juice, delivered by MobiTV's kitchen (stocked by the same people who do Google's food service), clicks with his interest in nature and biology. But Pressler is like a lot of thirtysomething tech vets who experienced the dotcom bust: reliable, flexible--and portable...