Word: leape
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decisions will soon be the norm for colleges––if Harvard fails to follow suit, it will seem out of date and out of touch. We should not be complacent about Harvard’s current leadership in the admissions process. Harvard must take the leap before it falls behind...
It’s recruiting season and I too have found myself the possessor of magical slips of paper promising fame, fortune and dental benefits, if only I leap that great 30 minute hurdle: the interview. Thus, as I ready to join the masses—marching off, attaches in hand, seeking some security for their post-graduation future—I have inquired as to what I might do to prepare. Should I be able to list my three greatest strengths and weakness in 2.5 minutes while maintaining eye contact, poise and clarity of thought? Should I formulate...
...recessions often help the best businesses widen their lead over the competition. "The true sign of greatness is a company's ability to emerge from difficult times stronger than it was going in," says Jim Collins, author of the just-published Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others...
...forced landing goes wrong, we view a wrenching simulation: the plane nose-dives into the tarmac and doesn't stop until it has ripped through a row of other planes and terminal buildings. By resisting the predictable, Zhang has rewritten the rules. Crash Landing is one giant leap for Chinese cinema. If you think you know China and you think you know movies, see it and think again...
...call author Jim Collins a perfectionist is to put it mildly. "Good is the enemy of great," says Collins in his comprehensive new book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't. For five years, Collins, the best-selling author of Built to Last, and his 21 researchers obsessively studied how a good company can become a great one. The companies Collins defined as great--for example, Walgreens--generated cumulative stock returns about seven times as large as those of the S&P 500 over a 15-year period. Collins concluded that...