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...cultural idea of femininity that women are supposed to be self-effacing about their work. It's striking how often women of accomplishment bend over backward to deny that they are responsible for their achievements. I got a call this week from a woman who had heard Meg Whitman, the CEO of eBay, speak at a conference. The woman said Whitman began her talk with a long disclaimer about her success...
...MEG WHITMAN by Chris Taylor...
...Whenever Meg Whitman gets up onstage before a crowd of eBay users, she makes a point of being self-effacing--even when they are all chanting her name. Typically, her first words to adoring online auctioneers are, "This is about you." In a sense, she's right: eBay would not be what it is today--one of the fastest-growing companies in America, collecting more than $2 billion in annual revenue--without its virtual community of approximately 30 million active users. They are the ones who are trading $900 worth of goods and services a second on her website...
...that two men are coming to rent a room, yet he refuses to tell her why. When slick Goldberg (Will LeBow) and bumbling yet imposing McCann (Remo Airaldi) finally show up, Stanley is extremely ill at ease because he seems to recognize them. Stanley becomes even more uncomfortable when Meg invites the two men to help her throw him a birthday party, and keeps insisting to the men that it is not even his birthday—but, curiously, not in front of Meg...
Slimy, suave Goldberg becomes preoccupied with Lulu (Elizabeth Laidlaw), the perky foreign girl next door, while McCann becomes an amusingly sentimental drunk. Meg continues to be her loopy, cheerful self, and when Lulu suggests a game of Blind Man’s Buff, she agrees to it with delight...