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...only taken one course in organizational behavior...so as far as I was concerned, I was on virgin territory," he says. "So I relied basically on listening. I just listened to many people and tried to extract the main principles. I [worked according to] trial and error, and through the advice of [Professor] Hackman, I was able to minimize the errors and improve the organization." Ben-Shachar's conclusions yielded "substantial changes" in the organization and, he says, "they were successful...
...time, subsisting on junk food and virtually no sleep. "We eat whatever Texaco, Conoco and Citgo are willing to serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered in mud and cow manure...
...office in Zagreb, for instance, were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were...
...also contributes to lower levels of productivity and standards of living." Yet he later advocates the subsidizing of American companies in foreign markets "until all foreign companies go bankrupt" after which "American companies could then assume control of the market...and the United States would be free to extract economic rents indefinitely." This is a clear contradiction; the benefits of competition are presumably the same, whether in the US computer industry or the Japanese kimono market...
...most accessible to Netheads--is Firefly http://www.ffly.com) Agents' flashy new "music-recommendation system." Firefly lets you rate records, tapes and CDs and then pools those ratings to create a "map" of your musical tastes. With thousands of users' tastes pinpointed on that same map, it becomes simple to extract dead-on recommendations from the ratings lists of your closest "neighbors." From the mingling of large numbers of relatively simple pieces of information, in other words, an uncanny sort of acumen emerges, able to make suggestions even your best friend might miss...