Word: reinvention
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Once a team is in place, expat bosses often have to reinvent themselves as managers. Lin Chase, 44, arrived in Bangalore in January 2006 to head Accenture's research and development lab. "I come from a culture where people love a plan," she says. "The plan is God." Not in India. She would step away from meetings confident that a plan was in place and wait for its execution. And wait. And wait. "It happened so many times that finally I changed my whole style," says Chase. "I talk to my team every day, ask them how it's going...
...will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent...
...that Tulane’s course catalog includes many Katrina-related courses. “It’s always there, it’s always a part of my life, it always will be,” he says. But Katrina, he adds, is an opportunity to reinvent Louisiana and New Orleans...
...says David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, "AmeriCorps is the best-kept secret in America." But under this national-service proposal, the program would more than triple in size, from 75,000 members each year to approximately 250,000. "We don't need to reinvent this nascent infrastructure," says Brown. "We need to take it to scale...
...Public Works of America Award for successfully addressing a wide variety of requirements: the open-air trellis roof minimizes odors; the stalls each open to the outdoors, removing fears of crime; the amenities are vandal-proof, constructed from the same grade materials used in jail cells. "I didn't reinvent the wheel," says Coakley of the comfort station. "It was a matter of taking the best pieces of the ones I saw and putting it together...