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...employees didn't know who he was until relatively recently. As head of Enron Capital Management--his job in 1997 and '98, when he was named CFO--he wielded his power across a very narrow band. In contrast to the avuncular Lay and the brilliant Skilling, Fastow was a PowerPoint executive whose number-crunching talent far exceeded his managerial and people skills. Indeed, when Fastow was charged with running an actual business--he was named managing director of Enron Energy Services in 1996--he botched it, and Skilling had to reel him back to finance...
...know, like consulting and investment banking—so that they can focus all of their efforts on recruiting. The consulting firms can accomplish this by purchasing the answer keys to Harvard Business School case studies and simply changing the names above the graphs for their PowerPoint presentations. Similarly, the investment banks can outsource the I-banking departments—which again is just replacing “Company X” with “Company Y” on the front page of pitchbooks that no one reads anyways—to a Third World country with strong...
...usual, it's packed with tempting treats. In Word, you can dictate text and let the software do the typing (with only the occasional dumb error). When your computer crashes, you can retrieve the file you were working on without losing your most recent changes. You can make PowerPoint presentations on prettier templates and flow text from one slide to the next. If you're really daring, you can copy financial data from the Web into Excel and get instant updates...
What I like most about Office XP is that it gives you a chance of actually finding all these extras. When you fire up Word, Excel or PowerPoint, a window on the right-hand side of the screen gives you a list of things you may want to do, like open an existing document or use a premade template. There are similar windows for adding clip art, formatting a document and doing searches. In previous versions, these items were hidden under menus. Documents are still peppered with all sorts of new icons and old squiggly lines meant to help...
...historical accuracy, the blackboard must be considered with all its variants--the overhead projector, the whiteboard, the large pad of paper, the PowerPoint presentation. But for reminiscence and generalization--for sheer metaphorical punch--the blackboard reigns supreme...