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...using only their instruments. In any case, most helicopters lack the necessary technology. So when a helicopter pilot flies into a cloud and can't see out his windows, it is - by definition - an emergency. The pilot must simultaneously descend until he can see lights on the ground, toggle multiple radio frequencies to inform nearby planes and airports that he is flying blind, maintain control of a twitchy aircraft in conditions he is not trained to handle, over terrain he does not know and cannot see. When flight nurses have nightmares, this is the picture on the backs of their...
...dazzle of the digital age, never forget the essential economic undertaking: busting rocks and moving dirt. You can't have Silicon Valley without first digging up the silicon, and even the smartest building starts out as a hole in the ground. So the news that Caterpillar is laying off 5,000 workers--bringing its total of recent layoffs to 20,000--only confirms that the economic contagion is spreading, from the executive floors of high finance to the bedrock world of tractors and dump trucks...
...team, on every level, must be a great team. That is to say, it must be aligned, or in sync, in five key areas: 1. Business strategy 2. Business deliverables coming from the strategy 3. Roles and responsibilities at individual and business-unit or functional levels 4. Protocols, or ground rules, for decision-making and conflict resolution 5. Business/interpersonal relationships and interdependencies...
Carol Porter, 63 and no word mincer, sits in her modest kitchen in Euclid, Minn., and recalls the day her 118-year-old church was burned to the ground. "I was baptized, confirmed and married there," she reports. Her family had moved two lots down from Euclid's First Presbyterian, so she was able to watch through the kitchen window a few years ago as fellow parishioners knocked down the church, buried its fixtures and then put a match to what remained, sending a thousand Sundays of memories up in smoke...
...Boundless Playgrounds, which secures grants for some simple improvements - like raising up sandboxes to accommodate children in wheelchairs and installing recliner-shaped swings for kids who need help sitting up - to more complicated ones, such as adding padded nooks for kids who need enclosed spaces or substituting a rubber ground for the wood chips currently used in many play areas. "Recreation is not just about fun and games. It's about building social skills and developing a child's mind," says Boundless Playground CEO Fred Leone. "Every child, with disabilities or not, has a right to that." (Read about...