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...Reported by Jackson Baker/Memphis; Steve Barnes/Dyess, Ark.; Sean Gregory and Jyoti Thottam/New York; Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles; and David E. Thigpen/Chicago
...fact, elements of the management structure championed by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who instituted a "forced ranking" system, have infiltrated deep into corporate America. Such systems rank employees along a bell curve in which the top 10% typically receive an A grade or equivalent, the middle 80% earn a B, and the bottom 10% earn a C--and a send-off if they don't improve. Such "rank and yank" systems gained popularity in the 1990s, and about a third of companies now use them, up from 13% in 1997, according to the consulting firm DDI. "Of course...
...even if it didn't, there's always someone out there who has something better. The answer? Quit the money chase--or at least run more slowly--and devote more time to family, friends and home. These things, the study shows, really do pay higher returns in happiness. --By Jeffrey Kluger...
ARRESTED. JEFFREY LEE PARSON, 18, for allegedly spreading a viruslike worm that, according to the FBI, infected at least 7,000 computers; in Hopkins, Minn. The worm is a modified version of Blaster that has inundated some 500,000 computers worldwide since its release in mid-August. Parson could get 10 years in prison if convicted...
...From lots of points of view from the School of Public Health, it would be a wonderful thing [to move to Allston],” said SPH Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology Jeffrey J. Fredberg, who also served on the provost’s Allston planning committee. “We have a severe space crunch . . . it’s a matter even of survival...