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...those who voluntarily left their most recent job, is at 14.5%, the highest in a decade. Even among those schooled in risk management, hotshot M.B.A.s who previously would have headed to Wall Street or Main Street, there is a predilection to spurn Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble in order to take a flyer on striking it rich quickly in dot.com land. "I didn't want someone in 20 years to ask me where I was when the Internet took off," says Greg Schoeny, a recent University of Denver M.B.A. who passed up opportunities with established technology firms like Lucent...
...individuals. "If you don't assume a certain amount of risk," says paraglider pilot Wade Ellet, 51, "you're missing a certain amount of life." And it is by taking risks that we may flirt with greatness. "We create technologies, we make new discoveries, but in order to do that, we have to push beyond the set of rules that are governing us at that time," says psychologist Farley...
...promises to be, it will come at a price--one that will be paid largely by the relatively anonymous groups of backroom sales-and-operations personnel who have kept the wheels of commerce humming. If you don't believe it, imagine trying to convince the legions of purchasing-order and sales executives--those who, as part of their current jobs, are wined, dined and bequeathed free tickets to every sporting event imaginable--that the Web is a better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side, B2B companies are businesses like...
...needed to offer a 401(k) plan to the 25 employees of her Scottsdale, Ariz., software company, NetPro. "In high tech, if you don't have a plan, your employees just go next door," Carthey says. By 1996, NetPro began offering stock options as a further benefit in order to keep up with its Silicon Valley peers. Employees buy shares in NetPro at a discount, before the company has gone public, and some hope to retire in part on the gains the business will see as it grows. Today even part-timers on the staff of 103 get options...
Responding to an emergency motion filed by Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) counsel Valerie West and Geronimo's long-time counsel Stuart Hanlon, Federal District Court Judge Weigel granted a temporary restraining order compelling prison officials to grant Geronimo single cell status...