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...that Perot, who built Electronic Data Systems into a multibillion-dollar enterprise before peddling it to GM, improved on the theories of two corporate legends who made salesmanship a near science: John Henry Patterson of National Cash Register and Thomas Watson of IBM. Perhaps so, but even by Wills' narrow definition of business leadership -- that it mostly has to do with selling -- someone like Bill Gates of Microsoft, who had much more originality than Perot and built a much more important company, might have been a stronger example of the corporate leader par excellence...
...focus on teaching "approaches" has made its mark. Very specific courses on small time periods and narrow subject areas are common in the core. The logic is that an approach to history can be taught as well or perhaps better, in course on the Darwinian revolution as is can in a broad survey course...
...city council voted down by a narrow margin last night an order calling for the resignation of Councillor William H. Walsh, who was convicted of 41 counts of bank fraud and the making false statement last month...
...Core's limited offerings do not ensureany kind of broad distribution, students say.Instead, narrow, specific courses give themesoteric knowledge in useless topics...
...strikingly odd, no? After all, the entire theory underlying the mediation enterprise holds that all sides are more or less equal. But as evinced by the fact that the HMS will not take just any conflict, this will to neutrality is not extended universally. We should reject this narrow definition of interest. It's time for the HMS to broaden its scope...