Word: mindedness
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Tom Chappell, CEO of Tom's, shuts down his factory four times a year at a cost of $100,000 each time, to ensure that all employees attend meetings that frequently center on the environment and other social issues. He and like-minded leaders view profits as a product of...
It is surprising just how far things have come. We're well beyond such hucksterish practices as the renaming of San Francisco's Candlestick Park as 3Com Park and Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium as Cinergy Field after corporate sponsors. That's pure commercialism that helps pay for stratospheric ballplayer salaries...
The commanders are no less impressive. Each one that I met was professional and open-minded. They clearly understood the destructive capability they control. Yet each one expressed their hope to never make use of it. What is more, the commanders' devotion and concern for the men and women in...
The origins of an American May Day lie in Chicago in the gilded year of 1886, when nearly 100,000 of the city's poor gather to demand an eight hour day. At sometime during the May 1st rally a bomb exploded, and four of the movement's supporters were...
A People's Tragedy (Viking; 923 pages; $39.95), by Orlando Figes, a historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic blood lust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. But the author's predominant diagnosis of what went wrong, on all...