Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also drove employees slightly crazy with his mania for details. Chao recalls having to re-edit a promotional spot for the series Cops 15 times before Diller was satisfied. His combative style was stimulating to some, debilitating to others. "It's the yell-in-your-face school of management," says an ex-staffer. But for Diller, passionate argument is not just a matter of temperament; it is a management philosophy. "Arguing out of conviction and belief is positive to the creative process," he says. "Years ago I started to worry, How do you keep your instincts clean...
...year in Chicago, has been playing for seven triumphant months at the Westchester Broadway Theater in Elmsford, New York, opened this month in Kansas City, Kansas, and St. Petersburg, Florida, and is due in six other cities. The show may never play Broadway, but who needs Broadway when Phantom Mania grips the land...
THEATER: Phantom Mania Stalks the Land...
...probably led the way. But why was love hatched in the process, since it was presumably unnecessary to get things started in the first place? Furthermore, what has sustained romance -- that odd collection of tics and impulses -- over the centuries? Most mass hallucinations, such as the 17th century tulip mania in Holland, flame out fairly rapidly when people realize the absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look more helplessly loopy...
Last week's three ousted chairmen thus joined a long line of executives who ) have fallen prey to the most significant new trend in American corporate governance since the takeover mania of the 1980s: boardrooms, as they discovered, are ceasing to be clubby havens for beleaguered executives. Puppets no more, directors are responding to financial and legal pressures from angry shareholders by rising up against management in open revolts that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While such boardroom activism is nothing new at smaller companies, where directors tend to hold large ownership stakes, it is now spreading...