Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glad it's been such a fluid process," Hill said. "Once I signed the player-agent contract, that gave the agency the ability to shop the market, and this team in Rotterdam popped up pretty quickly. The only effort I had to put out was marketing myself to the agency...
...Secretary's mission? The former Goldman Sachs partner spent years as head of the firm's arbitrage desk, a position in which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely on results is a serious deterrent to taking the risks that may be necessary to making the right decision." And the smooth-talking Rubin...
...merger announced last May than Schrempp's phalanx of strategic thinkers began issuing reams of organizational flow charts. Every phase was delineated with titles like "synergy tracking"; every group had its weekly meeting schedule, from last year until 2001, when the integration is to be complete. The process is directed by Rudiger Grube, the tireless tactician who helped Schrempp restructure Daimler-Benz...
...best measure of success is whether his schedules are being met. He set up a "post-merger integration" (PMI) structure in which 12 "issue-resolution teams" are assigned to push and cajole their counterparts into combining everything from supplies to research. Every time there is disagreement, the integration process for that group is halted until a solution is found. Progress is tracked in the "war room," a nondescript office down a dark second-floor corridor in Daimler's imposing brown headquarters in Stuttgart...
Even the best character-ed programs, though, can be seen as the culmination of a long process by which schools have assumed more and more responsibilities traditionally handled at home. The average school now teaches kids how to choose a balanced diet, drive, balance a checkbook, have sex (in sex ed), not have sex (in abstinence programs), identify sexual abuse and avoid HIV. We are a long way from reading, writing and arithmetic, and have been for some time. It was probably inevitable that we would ask schools to assume responsibility for teaching our kids to be decent human beings...