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...just how important Wal-Mart is. Their findings, available online, show that Wal-Mart accounted for 27 percent of all general retail sales in America in 1995, a staggering market share that has likely only grown in the last seven years. More importantly, Wal-Mart has and continues to implement managerial and technology innovations that make it among the most productive companies in the world. These same innovations force Wal-Mart’s competitors—K-Mart, Target, Costco and Sears—to play a constant game of catch up. Taken together, McKinsey found convincing data...
...Vulpilliere said she was disappointed that only half of BGLTSA’s board members attended the meeting and concerned the low attendance would make it more difficult to implement her suggestions...
...talked with and what they’ve told me. All of them are very good at distracting themselves. The hardest part often is just to sit down. When Larry Weinstein and I were at the Writing Center, we used to joke that the single most important implement for a writer was a pot of glue: you paint it on the chair and then you sit down...
...immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 it was right of President George W. Bush to temporarily evacuate senior civil servants from Washington to be in position to oversee their regional department offices. But it was overly hasty of the executive branch to indefinitely implement a shadow government without consulting all of the leaders of Congress. The failure of the Bush administration to inform all top congressional leaders of the plan is indicative of the administration’s broader problem with transparency...
...executive branch need not publicize plans for continuing basic government services beyond a small number of key officials who would actually implement them. But it is vital that the executive branch work with Congress to develop a plan to reconstitute all branches of government in the wake of a catastrophic attack. This includes how a new Congress would be elected if the capitol were destroyed and how the Supreme Court would be selected if a number of the justices were killed. In the case of a nuclear attack on Washington, Americans would be quite reasonably nervous about their safety...