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...include patternmaking but rather an altogether different kind of intangible skill set, namely the ability to manage intensely creative talent. Dior president Sidney Toledano, a graduate of the top French engineering school ECP, compares the structure of his company and his role within it to a nuclear power plant: the brand is the sun, the source of raw energy, the designer supplies the radium to set off fusion, and those highly skilled managers run the plant...
Toledano has been very successful as Dior's head plant manager: ever since he reined in John Galliano in 1998, sales have tripled and, at $825.7 million in 2005, are edging toward the $1 billion mark. Of course, back in 1997 containing and ultimately commercializing Galliano was a long shot considering the designer's past. As fashion's brilliant wild man known for exceptional creativity and pitiful financial results, he had seen backers pull the plug and had been penniless twice...
...Bernard Arnault to turn the company around, Burke had to find a way to keep designer Karl Lagerfeld in the fold and also massage a better relationship between the designer and Silvia Venturini Fendi, the talent behind Fendi's handbag business. That required yet another kind of nuclear power plant, one that Burke promptly set about creating in the form of Fendi's historic palazzo in the center of Rome, which he renovated in order to relocate scattered design studios and management offices under one roof. The idea was to centralize the talent and boost productivity. While Burke heaps praise...
...purple fruits owe their colors to anthocyanins, a subclass of polyphenols, which are ubiquitous in nature. Anthocyanins are important antioxidants. They protect plant tissue from oxidative damage from solar radiation and other environmental stresses. When we consume them, they protect our tissue from oxidative damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are toxic molecules produced in the course of normal metabolism and are present in environmental toxins like tobacco smoke. Research in test tubes and on animals shows that anthocyanins have anti-inflammatory and cancer-protective properties and can lower risks of getting age-related diseases, including cardiovascular and neurological...
Cleaning up the mess is the responsibility of the species that made it, and that job starts with coal. The 440 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. produce about 48 tons of mercury a year--40% of the nation's total output, by some estimates. The Clinton Administration did not attack the problem until its final year, when it issued a proposal that would have required a 90% cut in power-plant mercury by 2008. President George W. Bush has discarded the Clinton rule in favor of a looser standard that would result in only a 70% reduction...