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...environmental technology and on the right side of history," says Carlo Alberto Carnevale, a professor of strategic management at Bocconi University's business school in Milan and a close watcher of Fiat. "In that sense, it's the same bet as Steve Jobs'. That's why Marchionne uses that metaphor...
...Second, the arc of his biography struck a chord: his persistent struggle for respect and redemption - the comeback attempts, the efforts to surmount his recurring financial crises - mirrored the battles that many of us endure daily, albeit in a smaller scale. Even the question of his pigmentation became a metaphor for the black experience in America: he was not comfortable in his own skin, just as black men have not been made to feel comfortable in ours for most of this country's history...
...would need to stay in place if school districts are serious about having charter operators come in and take over parts of, or entire, failing schools. "It shouldn't be thought of as trying to change the ocean liner's course," says Smith, but rather, to carry out his metaphor, rebuilding the entire ship. "It would have to be really starting a new school with a new culture and new adults in the building...
...moving beyond "reactive law enforcement": "Those who take the "drug war" metaphor literally may feel this effort is best advanced by people in uniform with guns [but] in the end, the criminal-justice system is a very blunt instrument for dealing with drug markets ... the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of individuals is an extremely slow, expensive and labor-intensive process...
...environmental technology and on the right side of history," says Carlo Alberto Carnevale, a professor of strategic management at Bocconi University's business school in Milan and a close watcher of Fiat. "In that sense, it's the same bet as Steve Jobs'. That's why Marchionne uses that metaphor...