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Moving the organizational mountain in a radically different, horizontal direction is not easy, regardless of benefit. Fear of change and widespread initiative fatigue make the status quo very seductive. When Paul Michaels became president of Mars Inc. in 2004, he knew that the company needed to achieve far greater growth and financial return. But he faced internal organizational challenges every bit as daunting as those he faced in the marketplace. The top team at Mars was siloed and replete with unspoken agendas. Members did not see the benefit of working as a team; they were only concerned with the success...
...THERE. In pride of place was a display of pictures and letters detailing how the Indians extracted the body of a Chinese climber from the crater of the nearby Nyiragongo volcano. Above these was a proud banner reading BEYOND MANDATE. Retrieving a dead Chinese tourist from an uninhabited, uncontested mountain may be noble work. But the responsibility to protect was supposed to be about more than that...
...These declining figures are in contrast to the growing mountain of financial entities that need watching, including 12,750 companies that file securities, 10,800 registered investment advisers, 4,735 investment companies, and 6,000 broker/dealer firms, according to SEC figures...
...find its identity.A banged-up Crimson squad (1-7, 0-2 EIWA) dropped both dual meets this weekend, falling 38-3 to No. 8 Lehigh on Saturday before coming up short, 30-11, against Army on Sunday. Although the grapplers faced a daunting challenge in the eighth-ranked Mountain Hawks (19-1, 5-0), Harvard coach Jay Weiss expressed disappointment at the effort.“Even going against a top team, not at full strength, I still don’t think we wrestled well,” he said. “[Lehigh’s Leeman-Turner...
...That first year, the event was packaged as the "Extreme Games" and included skateboarding, bungee jumping, roller blading, mountain biking, sky surfing, and even street luging. As with the Olympics, winners were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals. Not everyone took the event very seriously. One especially snarky USA Today columnist called the X Games the "Look Ma, No Hands Olympics," adding, "Apparently - and it's possible I'm misinterpreting a cultural trend here - if you strap your best friend to the hood of a '72 Ford Falcon, drive it over a cliff, juggle three babies and a chain...