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...when he climbed a pomegranate tree in the garden and sang to his mother. His voice was a revelation. She immediately apprenticed him to a music teacher, Ustaad Amin Jan Mazari, who listened to him and took him on for free. In the South Asian tradition of gurus and disciples, Mirwais lived with his teacher "like a son," recalls Mazari. He did household chores and spent hours each day practicing the broad range of vocal scales found in classical Afghan music. Mirwais came to revere his master. Today, when they meet, the boy's face glows, and he bows...
...years, so let's get a piece of the action.' They're not focused on valuations." As in any frothy market, the media feed the euphoria. Indian TV viewers are now treated to a regular CNBC program called Wizards of Dalal Street, showcasing the wisdom of local investment gurus. Another channel, NDTV Profit, offers a rival show called Big Fish, as well as one called Sensex and the City. Indian publications pile on with headlines like THESE IPOS CAN MAKE YOU A SUPERSTAR INVESTOR...
...When the gurus at venerable staplermaker Swingline woke up to a sharp business reality in 2001--market share had declined from 65% in the mid-1990s to 60% by the end of the decade--they opted for a measured and scientific response: research. For three years, they plumbed the psyches of stapler users, surveying 2,867 people online and sending four-person teams into the offices of 54 individually selected companies to see how their products were used. "We noticed the nuances of their stapling habits. We saw where they kept their staples and their removers," said Jacklyn Gyoerkoe, marketing...
...been trafficking in gloom and doom. Politicians gripe about the damage to their national economies. France's new Finance Minister, Hervé Gaymard, last month called the dollar's decline "very worrying" and said Washington needed to fix the problem. And German trade groups sound more like self-help gurus when they talk - as they frequently do - about the currency crossing "a pain threshold." But despite all the whining, the strong euro has been a considerable boon to Europe's economy...
Management gurus have forecast the end of organizational hierarchies for decades. In an era of cascading technology and shifting social attitudes, they say, firms will turn into "communities," "horizontal structures" and other egalitarian forms. Nice buzzwords, but not reality, says Stanford Business School professor Harold J. Leavitt in Top Down: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively. Sure, Leavitt writes, hierarchies breed "infantilizing dependency that generates distrust, conflict, toadying, territoriality, backstabbing, distorted communication and most of the other ailments that plague every large organization." But they persist because compared with the alternatives, they...