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...from the parts their conductor assigns, then today's successful corporation is more like a jazz ensemble: from the CEO down, everyone needs to learn to improvise and play off one another. That's the lesson of Jazz Impact, a business-improvement seminar created by Minneapolis, Minn., bassist Michael Gold for clients that include General Mills and Starbucks. "In jazz improv there is a specific tune that we use as the common ground, yet someone can present a unique version of the tune," says Gold. "This type of thinking has to be able to happen for companies to be innovative...
...strategy that's working for Bantam Interactive is to operate under the biggies' radar. Bantam struck gold with its BA 350 player, launched in October. Sales of the $200 unit reached 10,000 through the holidays, and the company says it sells about 8,500 players a month. Bantam doesn't advertise or sell through retailers. Consumers shop on Bantam's website, bantamusa.com A skeleton crew does design and engineering in St. Louis, Mo. Flash-memory chips and circuit boards come from Taiwan and South Korea. The units are assembled and packaged in China and sent directly to customers...
...Hussain would like to see all three Buddhas reunited. As a kid, he scampered around the hermit caves, and lazed with his friends on top of the biggest Buddha, admiring the lapis and gold rimmed frescoes of the ancient monks?and seeing his own Asiatic features mirrored in their faces. "The people who made these Buddhas looked like Hazaras," says Hussain. "That's why the Taliban hated them so much." Forced to help destroy the two standing statues, Hussain says he's ready to find their sleeping companion. If he succeeds, Bamiyan's Buddhas can perhaps finally rest in peace...
...Toback—James—you’re sitting on a gold mine here. Have your people call my people—and by my people, I mean me. I’m in the directory...
...seemed that a race of she-bots stared back at me, their bronze metallic skin glowing in the studio-filtered sun, their blonde hair only slightly lighter than their newly tanned skin. All of the winter pale models with their milky white skin had been dipped in vats of gold paint and transformed into Brazilian versions of themselves. I flipped hurriedly to the magazine’s end, looking for some sign that at least a few ‘normal models’ remained, but found none; everyone in the pages of Glamour, regardless of what ethnicity they pretended...