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...industry group Nasscom. "We're likely to see an explosion in R.-and-D. outsourcing in 2005 and 2006," says Partha Iyengar, an analyst at the research firm Gartner who is based in Pune. If that happens, India's tech sector could enter a new, more mature phase of growth. U.S. and European firms would have a fresh way to nurture innovation. But they will also face the risks of laying the building blocks of their technological future far from home. "I really worry about R. and D.," says Ralph Wyndrum, a former research executive at AT&T and president...
...India's IT industry group Nasscom. "We're likely to see an explosion in R&D outsourcing in 2005 and 2006," says Partha Iyengar, an analyst at the research firm Gartner who is based in Pune. If that happens, India's tech sector could enter a new, more mature phase of growth. U.S. and European firms would have a fresh way to nurture innovation. But they will also face the risks of laying the building blocks of their technological future far from home. "I really worry about R&D," says Ralph Wyndrum, a former research executive...
...that he or she makes in the first 100 days on the job. So say Thomas Neff and James Citrin, top brass at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, in You're in Charge--Now What?, which presents a detailed "8-point plan" to help aspiring CEOs navigate that crucial phase. Neff and Citrin interviewed dozens of executives while conducting their research, and they illustrate each point of their plan--from shaping a management team to crafting a strategic agenda to engineering corporate culture--with real-life examples of success and failure. To explain the importance of preparation before...
Social scientists are starting to realize that a permanent shift has taken place in the way we live our lives. In the past, people moved from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, but today there is a new, intermediate phase along the way. The years from 18 until 25 and even beyond have become a distinct and separate life stage, a strange, transitional never-never land between adolescence and adulthood in which people stall for a few extra years, putting off the iron cage of adult responsibility that constantly threatens to crash down on them. They're betwixt...
...sociologists, psychologists, economists and others who study this age group have many names for this new phase of life--"youthhood," "adultescence"--and they call people in their 20s "kidults" and "boomerang kids," none of which have quite stuck. Terri Apter, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England and the author of The Myth of Maturity, calls them "thresholders...