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...people, and with playful cartoons drawn by Reynaud's close friend, José Reis de Matos. The visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author as he introduces some of his accomplices: Aimé, the "prince of the art of cutting up the carcass"; Bibi, the bistro owner with a "paunch as welcoming as a soft pillow to a tired head at night"; and Pompon, the Armagnac supplier who doubles as a "learned professor...
Erik Prince, 37, Blackwater's ambitious founder and sole owner, could have taken over his father's billion-dollar auto-parts empire. But he was attracted to the battlefield from a young age. He enrolled in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and although he finished college at a school closer to home, he eventually became a naval officer and was attached to the élite Navy seal Team 8 based in Norfolk, Va. He served in Haiti, Bosnia and the Middle East. In 1995, when his father died, Prince left the Navy and returned to Michigan...
...would, for the first time, require the creation of databases to monitor the deployment and cost of contractors. Only last fall did the Department of Defense conduct a poll of some contracting companies, which came back with the suspiciously round number of 100,000 contractors operating in Iraq. "An owner of a circus," says Peter Singer, author of Corporate Warriors, "faces more regulation and inspection than a private military company...
When Drexler showed up at J. Crew in 2003, no one was doing much of anything. Sales had dropped four out of five years running; the company's majority owner, private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group, had changed CEOs like last season's fashions, three in five years. On Drexler's watch, J. Crew rebounded dramatically, earning $3.8 million in 2005, its first profit since 2000. On March 13, the company reported 2006 sales of $1.15 billion, up 21%, and a healthy profit of $77.8 million...
Well, not so fast. Turns out Peters never really did run the company, although he was its chairman and the owner of some of its well-known programs like Wow! Projects and Brand You. The story of the company's postdivorce ascent reflects its struggle with and ambivalence over the Peters legacy--the inspiration of his driving passion and the pitfalls of his provocateur's stance and über-guru status. And it raises the question of whether theorizing about management has much to do with managing...