Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet or his fingers. He is used to taking command, to shoving decisions through, to getting things done. He has a habit of scrambling the chain of command?and confounding and angering the bureaucrats?by pumping information out of the person most directly involved in a program, whatever his rank...
More and more executives and their families are refusing to be uprooted, even if the transfer means higher rank and salary. Merrill Lynch Relocation Management, Inc., which specializes in moving executives, estimates that 200,000 to 300,000 of them will be asked by their employers this year to move to new locations and one-third to one-half will object; only a decade ago, the refusal rate was no more than 10%. Says James E. Wall, vice president of Celanese Corp.: "The balance has definitely shifted away from saluting the company and marching off to Timbuctu toward a greater...
...make another offer unless he tells us that he has changed his mind." In response to the move resisters, Bank of America is concentrating on promoting people in their present locations rather than switching executives around so much. BOA's Easley, for example, was promoted May 1, with higher rank and salary in the home office even though he refused the transfer to the San Mateo branch...
...course, clear status distinctions between the deans and their assistants. Gibson feels employees in her office are treated with respect. Almost everyone there is on a first-name basis, and when more formal titles are used, it's usually because of personal preferences, not on the basis of rank...
Dale Peterson, a spokesman for the CIA, said yesterday the CIA has nominated two members with GS 18 rank--"about the highest rank there is below appointed ones" for participation in the program. He said the Kennedy School contacted the CIA late last year to ask them their views on the program, but he said the CIA had no part in running the program...