Word: minding
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There are three things worth keeping in mind about any great enterprise that eventually falls. Number one, the seeds of decline are usually in place long before decline becomes visible - like a disease where you look strong on the outside but you're already ill on the inside. Second, we tend to think decline happens because of complacency - people just sitting still, not being aggressive or innovating. But we found there's often tremendous change and innovation leading right up to the point of fall. It's overreaching: undisciplined growth, undisciplined risk-taking. Finally, I was surprised...
Fall Preview. JetBlue is offering tickets to its three new Caribbean destinations - Saint Lucia, Barbados and Kingston, Jamaica - for $99 from JFK. Before you start packing, bear in mind the cheap fares don't kick in until October, but you'll have to book by June 17 for all travel through...
...China equation got unbalanced. First came a spike in shipping costs that led manufacturers in the West to take a closer look at all the costs - time to market, quality control, etc. - of stringing their supply chains across oceans. While shipping rates have since subsided, the shift in mind-set among executives has stuck, says John Ferreira, head of the manufacturing practice at Archstone Consulting. No longer is there a herd mentality pushing them to China and other faraway places, he says. When Ferreira surveyed U.S. and European manufacturing execs late last year, almost 90% said they were contemplating bringing...
...arose in part because of their migraines rather than in spite of them. He entertains the idea that migraines "make the clear moments that much clearer, the dark moments that much more unreachable." There is a quasi-Buddhist discipline to enduring them, and they leave in their wake a mind worn smooth and bright by their passage. In 1910, Virginia Woolf, sensing a headache coming on, prepped herself for inspiration. "I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe," she wrote in a letter to her sister. "It will be exquisite by September...
...first reported by Politico, after Palin was informed Saturday that she could come but would not have a speaking role, her staff angrily said she likely wouldn't attend the dinner. Cornyn reached out to her personally on Sunday to try to change her mind, and on Monday, Sessions was also reportedly working overtime to try to persuade the popular Republican to attend the event. By late Monday afternoon, Palin had reportedly decided to attend (though not speak at) the dinner...