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What are today's companies looking for in a shiny new CEO? Talk of vision and synergies has been replaced almost everywhere by a laser-like focus on profitability. Debt and heavy-handed micromanagement are out; sustainable earnings and delegation of authority are in. Some corporate crises, such as Parmalat's, may be too big for any mortal to solve completely and point to the need for broader regulatory changes. But the new boys--women remain rare in the top jobs in corporate Europe--are under enormous pressure to untangle the failed legacy of their predecessors as fast as possible...
...from bombs dropped by U.S. F-16s can be heard in the center of the city. The insurgents respond with two salvos of mortar fire against Easy Company's base. Captain John Bailey, a soft-spoken F-18 pilot temporarily assigned here as a forward air controller, hauls his laser equipment onto the roof. He focuses his laser on a two-story building at the edge of town. He radios the pilot of an F-16 and orders an air strike. "Come on, bird," he says to himself. "You're going to fry this thing." Then: "This is going...
Seconds later a Marine shouts from an observation post on the roof: "Incoming!" Mortars again. Bailey points his laser toward another set of buildings. One bomb misses the target, but a second strike sends bits of the building flying high into the sky, to the delight of watching Marines. Captain Weston has another target in mind. Bailey shrugs. "It's the [commanding officer]'s call," he says. "We've got to rebuild this f______ country sooner or later. We don't want to blow up too much...
...POLISHING The stones are then polished with lathes or computer-guided laser beams before being sold and traded worldwide...
...gets more penetrating—it gets like a laser. And that’s what high performance is at the college or the pro level...