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...Levav of Oven Digital, now a company of more than 200 employees in seven countries, warns that it's important to remember that even with oldsters aboard, dotcoms cannot, and should not, operate by all the same old rules. Sure, experience counts, but so do flexibility and the willingness and ability to adapt to the new culture. He also warns against any traditional managers who might try to maintain a hierarchy that would only stifle talent. Instead he points to Bill Gates' practice of making himself accessible to anyone in the company via e-mail, which allows good ideas...
Function is out? Say it isn't so! The nouveaux contours and colors of products merely top off the vast improvements that have been made in the underlying functional design. Moreover, consumers demand that products function conveniently, safely, ecologically and obviously. We scoff at a microwave oven with a complex 50-button console. If you can't figure out how to heat a cup of cocoa without reading the instructions, it's the manufacturer who is stupid. A fuchsia cell phone might be pretty, but a cell phone that does not require a manual--now that's truly beautiful. KATRINA...
...superficial and pesky with their ridiculous hypotheticals, and it's hard to scrunch your six-foot-five frame into a coach seat knowing your opponent is stretched out on a soft mattress on Air Force Two, but who said campaigning was a rose garden? One night when the oven wasn't working on his charter plane, Bradley lost his usual composure. When Gore heard about it, he put a white napkin over his arm and served the press dinner on his flight. You've arrived at a very bad pass when Gore comes across as the warm and playful...
...Reider '00, as the evening's master chef is lauded. The food is delicious, but few ever miss the opportunity for fresh bread. During the meal, people trail into the kitchen to cut off a chunk from one of the six loaves lying on the counter, fresh from the oven--a long way from the Wonderbread in Harvard's dining halls...
...also teach our kids the quiet pleasure of waiting. This year my daughter got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas. She opened it. She watched my face light up. And she gave it to me. "You finally got your oven!" she said. What a kid! Next year I think I'll get her a Barbie Dream House--I've wanted one since I was eight...