Word: reinvention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first anniversary of the Administration's ambitious efforts to "reinvent government," President Clinton, with project leader Al Gore at his side, took a pair of scissors and snipped through a symbolic tangle of red tape to claim that the initiative had already saved $47 billion. How? By removing more than 70,000 workers from the federal payroll, mostly through buyouts and retirements, and cutting paperwork...
...though, the Katzenberg era at Disney -- one of phenomenal growth, an eerie stability and that amazing revival of the precious cartoon heritage -- has ended. Oh well, as the Lion King would say, hakuna matata. Not to worry. Eisner will reinvent his company, and soon, perhaps, Katzenberg will invent his own. For the moment, he's in the hot seat. His former colleague -- and future competitor -- is sitting in the Katzenberg seat...
...pledge to "end welfare as we know it." No issue in his first term has inspired such bipartisan, near universal agreement on the need to do something dramatic. And for all the attention paid in the past year to his health-care plan, no policy has such potential to reinvent whole aspects of American public and private life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against illegitimacy, aimed at persuading poor people to become stable, self-supporting workers before they become parents. If this crusade works, its supporters promise, it could do more to fight crime, strengthen families...
...approach to life believe is very useful comes in the form of the admonishment, "Don't reinvent the wheel." Most often we use the analogy to remind us to ask for advice from someone who knows something about a problem that we're facing. Maybe, we can't get a window screen back onto its hinges on the window. After cutting our hands and wondering why someone hasn't come up with a better screen, we ask a roommate who lived in the room before...
...magic of copyright. More remarkable than Mickey or Dumbo or any other creation, pre- or post-Walt, has been the company's success in exploiting established franchises and accumulating new ones. Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast, which has metamorphosed from a bedtime story known to every child into a megahit animated film (and an even bigger hit on video), a sound track, a theme-park attraction, an ice show, a lunch-box and T-shirt...