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Other creative benefits can take a variety of shapes, some of them just plain fun. Jerry Daly, president of Daly Gray, a Northfield, N.J., public relations firm with six employees and annual billings of $1 million, donates some of his frequent-flyer miles to his staff. Daly's practice of letting employees add vacation days to business trips if they want allows his firm to save on airfare--because of cut-rate Saturday-night-stayover airline prices. And his grateful employees get the added benefit of a mini-vacation at no cost to them. "I may be competing with...
Daly Gray vice president Carol McCune says she has saved $15,000 to $20,000 in hotel and airfare expenses during the five years she has been with the firm. When she goes to California on business, she stays a few extra days to visit her sister--courtesy of the boss. "If it weren't for these business trips, I would probably never get to see my sister and 12-year-old nephew," McCune says. "This is my twin sister, and we are very close. And it's real important to me that I can go to my nephew...
Faced with this threat, Kentucky officials hired Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm, to conduct a study--paid for by GE--on whether the company really intended to turn out the lights. The answer Coopers & Lybrand came up with...
...accessible writings have made it easy for the layperson to understand what psychologists have known for decades--that our intellect is more than our IQ. We should also consider the work of outstanding social scientist Mary Meeker, who publishes intellect-boosting tests, workbooks and software. Since 1996 our firm has provided the Meeker model to almost 150 schools serving more than 60,000 youngsters. These schools have documented statistically significant increases in academic achievements. By developing intellectual strength and stamina, students increase their mental power and endurance--whether they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages...
...that global warming was nothing to get overly alarmed about. The barons of fossil fuel warned that curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases would destroy jobs without necessarily having a positive effect on our climate. But now, as officials from 180 nations meet in Buenos Aires this week to firm up the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty forged in Japan last year to combat climate change, the forces of opposition have suffered some major defections...