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...Europeans can often talk tougher and act more decisively than the Americans abroad. Pleading for a boost in productivity at Ford Motor Co.'s British branch, Manchester-born Managing Director Allen Barke told 60,000 workers: "Britain's image abroad is lousy" - and they applauded his pep talk. Thanks to management training at their U.S. home offices and such business schools as Harvard and Stanford, the European executives can comfortably speak the jargon of U.S. business ("parameters," "public relations," "cost control"), but they switch on their local dialects to good advantage when dealing with customers, competitors or labor...
Soft-spoken and introverted, Lopez rarely bawls out his players for mistakes. "What's the use?" he says. "They're adults." And he almost never holds clubhouse meetings to discuss strategy or give pep talks. "I attended hundreds of those meetings as a player," he says, "and most of them were a waste of time...
...more out of one overworked man than out of two underworked men," he said. He kept his people on the job seven days a week, and when their enthusiasm flagged, he gave them what he called the "Raborn rededication treatment." This was a cross between a half-time pep talk and a Fourth of July speech. Said one dazed aide after getting the treatment: "I knew that I was ready to die for someone, but I didn't know whether it was the admiral, the President, my mother, the head of the Boy Scouts...
...outsells Bromo-Seltzer 4 to 1). After packaging powdered coffee and lemon mix for K-rations during World War II, Miles Laboratories became in the postwar years the world's largest seller of multivitamin tablets. Nonetheless, though prospering, the company itself showed a decided lack of pep by the mid-1950s...
Characterizing marijuana as "harm- ful," he said that its use should be strongly discouraged. In addition, Farnsworth cited gradually accumulating evidence that "the dangers of amphetamines (pep pills) are even greater than previously believed...