Word: payoff
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From its founding in 1986, the Tom Peters Co., based in Cincinnati, Ohio, waxed and waned with business cycles, with Peters promoting the company at varying levels of intensity. After the dotcom bust, Peters' high-risk, big-payoff consulting projects, which preached blowing up business-as usual, were less in vogue. The bulk of the company's business was in its safer leadership training, mostly using non-Peters material that emphasized behavioral assessment and leadership preparation. In 2004, Peters, who had moved his personal life from California to Vermont, decided that "it was silly to have a company in Cincinnati...
...world with more information, more options and more demands for productivity than ever before, the stakes are incredibly high. "To say yes to the right things"--and not be overwhelmed, overworked and generally stressed out--"you have to say no to a lot of other things," Ury says. The payoff, he notes, can be twofold, since delivering a respectful, decisive no can paradoxically strengthen your relationship with the person on the receiving...
...Chilean military and academia: the captain once commanded the Chilean Navy SEALs, the expedition leader was in command of Augusto Pinochet's bodyguards, and Gian Paolo Sanino, the scientist who leads the ecotours, wrote Chile's new law on whale and dolphin watching. His payoff? He gets to conduct baseline research in an area where very little cetacean research has been done. "We always complain the private sector doesn't sponsor science," says Sanino. "Now they...
...first raised in Carol Ann Lee's 2003 book, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, which reported that a member of a Dutch pro-Nazi party was blackmailing Frank. After Otto was heard making a remark showing skepticism of prompt German victory, on April 18 the blackmailer requested a payoff. Twelve days later Frank wrote Straus...
...which we have advocated in the past: hiring top-notch teachers for full-time teaching posts and renewing their contracts indefinitely based on their teaching performance.Currently, Harvard does not allow lecturers or teaching fellows to remain at Harvard for more than eight years. This archaic rule has a negative payoff: individuals who are hired for and excel at teaching students must leave regardless of their pedagogical ability. The typical argument for the eight year cap—that forcing lecturers to leave the University prevents them from getting stuck in a long-term teaching position—is paternalistic...