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Make yourself indispensable. Figure out your company's central mission and be part of it. When companies retrench, they say, "What do customers come to us for? What are we good at? Maybe we shouldn't be experimenting around in these other fields." And be visible...
...diversity, however, means CforC teams "look at the world in a new way and can create something new," Slim says. For instance, he adds, "it allows us to think seamlessly about our clients' social and core business interests, recommending community and commercial opportunities simultaneously." Each team is given a mission, resources and a deadline. "Then we let them go and do it," Butler says. Telecom giant Vodafone, which recently bought Ghana Telecom, is using CforC to help it find useful projects in Ghana to get involved in. CforC's team includes an African anthropologist, an academic expert on aid flow...
...tying to find all the best practices,” Bhabha says, acknowledging that the Task Force has been taking cues from restructuring successes in Harvard’s artistic past.The Committee on the Visual Arts provided one such paradigm, according to Bhabha. In her original mission statement for the Task Force, Faust acknowledged this, explaining that the Committee on the Visual Arts was formed when “Harvard began explicitly to explore its traditionally uneasy relationship to the arts, acknowledging that the University had long viewed the practice of the arts as most appropriately located outside the curriculum...
...That's when the stern gate of the U.S.S. San Antonio - needed to roll vehicles onto and off the nearly 700-ft. vessel - wouldn't work. The Navy eventually got the gate fixed in time for the ship to leave Norfolk and sail to the Persian Gulf, where its mission is to hunt down smugglers. But now the San Antonio has been forced into port in Bahrain for at least two weeks of repairs to leaks in the hefty pipes feeding fuel to two of its four engines. Hinting at the seriousness of the problem, the Navy has just dispatched...
...Navy inspectors also recently criticized the U.S.S. New Orleans, the second vessel in the San Antonio's class. It "cannot support embarked troops, cargo or landing craft" - its primary mission - according to a report obtained by the independent Navy Times. Navy officials say the third and fourth vessels are performing much better. The rush to produce the fleet might make military sense if they were needed, but the last time Marines stormed ashore - the key reason the taxpayers are spending $14 billion on the San Antonio and at least eight more ships just like it - was nearly 60 years...