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...turnaround job can't be done simply by cutting costs. "George Fisher is not just coming in to chop heads," says Michael Geran, an analyst at Pershing & Co. "He's a builder, not a destroyer. He's coming in to reinvent and re-energize the company." That's a challenge his successor at Motorola can gratefully skip...
Great athletes reinvent their sport. They reveal that the game can be played in a way that no one before had imagined. In basketball, Bill Russell showed that great defense spelled even better offense. Elgin Baylor showed that basketball was played in the air, not on the ground. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed that a seven-footer could be as graceful and mobile as players a foot shorter. Jordan combined all the exemplary skills of the greats who preceded him in one leaping, gyrating package. Sometimes it seemed as though he did everything better than anyone else had ever done...
Three years into the country's heart-wrenching drive to reinvent itself -- and hours after a hard-line coup attempt -- Russians found themselves last week swapping expressions of political drift. "It could have been worse," has long been a favorite conversation clincher among Russians. Last week it was also true. If the rampaging gangs of fascists, communists and nationalists had managed to take over in the Kremlin, the world would be staring at them, fearful about the guns they were so willing to use and about the immense nuclear arsenal at their disposal...
...Latecomers enjoy an easier learning process and don't have to reinvent the wheel," Goh said...
...Gore '69 and his White House staff have set about reinventing government, the Republicans, a scattered group, are attempting to reinvent themselves. They know that in 1992, Bill Clinton did not receive an over-whelming mandate from the American people on the power of his campaign goals (an idea that the media took up with relish in the post-election period, but have since abandoned in their growing disdain for the White House...