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...former Exxon chemical engineer doesn't like to do. Peers at Exxon dubbed Krouse "Iceman" because the Natchez, Miss., native once traveled to Naperville, Ill., in December for training that could have waited until spring. Eventually, in 2001, Krouse says, he was fired for pushing a pet chemical-engineering project too hard...
...Hastings project underscores the potential for inland dam-free hydropower--30,000 MW, roughly 10% of existing U.S. coal-burner capacity, according to U.S. Department of Energy estimates. The green lobby, which fights dams, is not yet sure what to make of dam-free hydro, but it is wary. True, you can pull a turbine out of the water if things go badly--but "you don't just put one turbine in the water," says Robbin Marks of American Rivers. "To generate a fair amount of electricity, you have to put in hundreds. We really don't know what...
Conversant asks each trainee to apply what she or he has learned to a current in-house project, with the goal of generating at least 10 times the return on the money the company is spending on the effort...
Difficult to accomplish? Not really, says Roger Bhalla, the director of HP's Worldwide Notebook Supply Chain Strategy and a Conversant graduate. A 40-person project to overhaul factories in six countries generated a 100-fold return on investment, he reports. Before he attended the horse program, though, "it was highly probable that the project would have stalled, based on disagreements in the team," he recalls...
...enough to achieve a sense of accomplishment, as well as a confidence they hope will stick even when they're buried in paperwork and Ferguson and her colleagues in accounting are screaming for new computers. "I went into the program with some trepidation," allows Kelcie Anderson, 36, a project manager with Tektronix in Beaverton, Ore., who had never been on a horse before her stay at the Home Ranch. "I was never afraid of my horse, but I didn't know how well I was going to do." After a disappointing start, Anderson learned how to corral her fears...