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...good thing. Without rejection, acceptance would lose its cachet. Besides, as T. H. Huxley observed, “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” Each comp gives Harvard students the chance to catch up on all the lessons of failure that they missed out on earlier. For valuable as the “Harvard name” is, it does not magically unlock every door. Success requires effort, diligence, and the ability to take rejection in stride. Harvard’s comps give students the opportunity to learn this...
...Full Web access would have been so expensive that the airline would have had to charge passengers to use it. "Nobody cares if it's not free," says Neeleman. "It's so irritating to go into a hot spot and have to pay." JetBlue and other airlines learned that lesson with seat-back phones. That service was discontinued because of lack of interest from passengers unwilling to pay several dollars for one in-flight phone call. The ground-to-air spectrum used for those in-flight calls came up for bid in July 2006, and JetBlue's subsidiary, LiveTV, purchased...
...think I’m gonna fall for this anymore / Everybody say nah nah nah.” You tell him, girl. Alicia’s strength—along with her determination to overcome adversity and prevail—is motivational. In her song “Lesson Learned,” featuring John Mayer, overcoming the “falls” of life is the main subject. The two sing, “Falling down ain’t falling down if you don’t cry when you hit the floor.” Keys...
...There's also a lesson here for company managers, says Falk. A wage scale should reflect job and performance differences fairly, or else firms risk alienating their staff. "It's extremely important for companies to understand it's not just a matter of justice, but it's also a matter of efficiency," he says. It turns out the negative response to earning less is usually stronger than the positive response to earning more or as Falk says, "The pain of having less is much stronger than the joy of having more." Workers who discover they're earning more...
...first day of the labor stoppage. "Our initial intention was to bring awareness to the importance of writing in the creative process," says Hickenlooper. But putting together the project with borrowed equipment and writers serving in a range of unfamiliar jobs such as grips and publicists has been a lesson to the writers in the possibilities of studio-free Internet distribution. "The Internet is the future of all entertainment," says Hickenlooper. "We're happy to take advantage of it with or without the involvement of these conglomerates...