Word: failings
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Finding and promoting good female managers is one thing; keeping them is proving to be a tall order. Many of the most accomplished women get fed up with corporate life when they fail to advance into the upper echelons. Twenty years after women entered the professional ranks in significant numbers, very few have broken through the middle ranks of management to the top jobs. A Korn/Ferry survey last year of all FORTUNE 1,000 companies found that of the top five jobs below CEO at each firm, only 3% are held by women, up from 1% a decade...
Difficult and slippery as some of these issues may be, companies must address them. Otherwise they will fail to fulfill a vital responsibility of any firm: recruiting and nurturing strong future managers. Learning how to lead a diverse work force may be maddeningly complicated. But the alternative, management experts predict, may be alienated employees working at cross purposes. At Du Pont, an exhaustive series of new training courses helps employees explore sensitive issues dividing the sexes and races. In a three- day program, men and women hash out their differences in an encounter-style setting. Another seminar explores a topic...
Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, who opposes CLT, nonetheless agrees that university administrators may have a personal interest in seeing the petition fail. He points to numerous Massachusetts state college administrators who he says earn more than $100,000 per year, as well as a new $22 million telephone system and a $500,000 cable television system at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
This journey proves far more exciting than either anticipates. Competitors appear, with vested interests in the poets' reputations, who want Roland and Maud to fail. What is more, the investigators are drawn into a pattern that eerily resembles the story they are trying to piece together. Questions about Ash and LaMotte become questions about Roland and Maude...
...customs system, which would mean, in effect, secession; enter into some new coalition with Gorbachev that edges out the U.S.S.R.'s most unpopular national leader, cautious Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov; or go ahead with a modified Shatalin program on Nov. 1 and wait for Gorbachev's plan to fail -- an outcome Yeltsin predicted would happen within six months at most. Carrying out Shatalin's full plan in Russia was evidently doomed by Gorbachev's decision to pull back from the proposal as long as the Kremlin would retain broad authority over the money supply, spending and other central controls...