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...narrow niche for three years. With her procrastinator-profiler quiz and Anticrastinate Your Way to Success program, she uncovers competing goals that she believes are the root of most people's slowdowns. She helps clients bring them to the surface and resolve them. A typical case might be a midlevel manager who falls behind because he can't delegate. He makes his boss look bad and frustrates the people under him by micromanaging them. "If you procrastinate," Kassel declares, "people don't trust your leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agents: Meet the Nicheperts | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...traditional haute couture nears saturation. "No brand is sacred in its marketplace anymore," says Rita Clifton, chairman of global consultancy Interbrand. "Even mature brands want to generate sustainable growth, so now you see the blurring of categories." Since the fastest growing segment of the women's sportswear market is midlevel, luxury brands have had to adjust accordingly. In most cases, "It's not about using snob appeal or aspirational branding to make their products even more expensive, it's about making the brand more approachable and affordable to a wider range of customers," says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prêt à Sporter | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...created the eBay Foundation with a donation of 107,250 shares of pre-ipo stock to fund community organizations and provide grants to a variety of non-profit groups. His $600 million Skoll Foundation awards up to 18 grants each year, ranging from $500,000 to $1 million, to midlevel social entrepreneurs. But when Skoll opened Participant Productions in January 2004 and announced his intention to cure what ails the world through film, even his greatest admirers predicted the billionaire would soon be downsizing to a mere millionaire. In Hollywood there generally isn't much money to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Movies with a Message | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

...through midlevel al-Qaeda operatives like Abu Abdullah, who retains ties to some of his former Baathist comrades, that nationalist groups have newfound influence with al-Zarqawi. "What he's now having to do is balance the hard-line ideology with the softer line of the Iraqis within his group," says Abu Marwan. Sunni insurgent leaders say it was their insistence on voting in the October referendum that discouraged al-Zarqawi from disrupting the poll. For now, the nationalists say they will be voting again on Dec. 15, and they expect al-Qaeda to once more hold its fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules of Engagement | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...young software engineers are eager to work for as little as $4,500 a year. Yet there are not nearly enough experienced managers (who can pull in 10 times as much) to oversee the influx of raw recruits. At the same time, as multinationals like Accenture and IBM poach midlevel executives, some observers are worried that fast-rising wages could erode India's competitiveness--and price the country out of the outsourcing business, which has fueled most of the country's IT growth. --By Aravind Adiga/New Delhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Briefing: Sep 20, 2004 | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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