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THREE SISTERS. Edward Herrmann and Linda Hunt head an all-star cast that Broadway producers would envy in Chekhov's tragedy of a family thwarted, but the staging is way off-Broadway -- 50 miles off -- at Princeton's McCarter Theater...
...remember." With two young children at home (Susan, 9, and Mark, 5), Watson was painfully aware of what the promotion would mean to her family. "The trade-offs were obvious," says her husband, who is nicknamed "Chase" within the family. Watson is a religious Catholic, and her brother John Herrmann, a chemical engineer with NASA, recalls that "she spent a lot of time at Mass praying over doing the right thing." Watson even managed to convince herself that she had withdrawn her candidacy by telling the mayor, "It's an awesome responsibility and a tremendous personal sacrifice...
...together, we talk about children, sales at the local stores and picking out floor tiles," says Ginger Quinn, a younger sister who is a captain with -- yes -- the Harris County sheriff's department. The entire family moved to Houston from Philadelphia in 1963 when Betsy's father John Herrmann became a project manager for NASA, working on the lunar module. He died in 1976, but his influence lives on in his second-oldest child. "Growing up, Karen and Ginger were very outgoing, but I was shy," Watson says. "Our father kept reassuring all of us that we could do anything...
Hewlett-Packard is spending nearly two years and $40 million designing a "factory of the future," scheduled to open in Puerto Rico next year, where computer-systems employees will be hired on the basis of their creative potential. Judging that kind of potential is the business of Ned Herrmann, whose North Carolina-based Applied Creative Services runs workshops on "whole-brain theory." Herrmann, who spent 35 years at General Electric, a dozen of them as head of management education, has cooked up a test called the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, which includes such queries as "Have you ever experienced motion...
...this why Woody Allen might avoid roller coasters? Does Yo Yo Ma get carsick in a limo en route to the concert? That's not the point, according to Herrmann. With H.B.D.I. results in hand, a manager can select people with different ways of learning, who together will form "a composite whole brain," thus working more efficiently, and creatively...