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...fall and told me casually to find the right people to work on the project. Early the following week he asked me whom I had chosen. I said I would soon have a roster for him. His head snapped toward me, and he fixed me with a finger stabbing the air as he raved for a good half-hour about my being a stupid, irresponsible ass who did not have the ears to hear his instructions. Yet the next day he greeted me in his usual manner...
...experts maintain that it is not easy for corporate executives to adopt a policy of letting free spirits go off on their own, spending company money with little centralized control. Says Terry Winters, a venture capitalist in Englewood, Colo.: "Even the best of organizations cannot keep its management's finger out of the pie." The new style involves a radical departure from corporate policies based on control from the top, layers of reporting and analysis, and an intolerance of failure. As a result, & intrapreneurship seems to work best in companies like 3M that have a long tradition of encouraging employees...
...occasion for this finger-pointing is the wholesale personnel shuffle in the White House in the past week. With James Baker, the chief of staff, and Donald Regan, the Treasury Secretary, swapping places, and Ed Meese headed for Justice and Mike Deaver out of the Administration, all bets are off on the ideological chemistry of the second Reagan term. But what cries out, largely unsuccessfully, for comment is the new resonance these moves give to the unpleasant principle expressed by too many members of the Administration--that it is okay to use public office for personal gain...
...Finger said he his clients waited more than a year after the November 19, 1983 accident because there was a "substantial investigation to be completed and substantial information to obtain...
...defendents] had done what is reasonable under the circumstances, there is no question that the accident could have been prevented," Finger said. "Now, she is looking forward to permanent, severe problems...