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...Your book is a first-cousin to "Who Moved My Cheese," which urged, 'Don't resist change...
...demo event at the 1992 Olympics. (His personal best: 135 m.p.h., or 217 km/h.) A business consultant with a master's degree in organizational management, Poscente admires swiftness in companies as well as individuals. Google, he says, "knows how to harness the power of speed," whereas Kodak "actively resisted speed even though its environment demanded it." He identifies four pop-psychology types: Zeppelins, who stubbornly resist speeding up; Balloons, whose occupations remove them from the need for speed; Bottle Rockets, who race around recklessly; and Jets, who turn speed to their advantage...
...stuff, but I think that the rents got so high, so all these stores moved in. You wouldn’t believe this place ten years ago.”Nevertheless, Harvard Square on warm autumn nights radiates a festival-like climate that’s hard to resist. It remains a prime performance location.“There are nice people,” says Podobry. “There are nice girls walking by. It’s a good atmosphere for performing.”—Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton can be reached...
...much smaller group of religious conservatives attending the conference who couldn't resist the opportunity to dust off their flamethrowers and aim them squarely at the rest of their party. On Saturday afternoon, a group of about 45 huddled privately to hear Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, handicap the 2008 race. And out of that two-hour rump session came the warning that within 48 hours landed in every political inbox: If Republicans go ahead and nominate the "pro-abortion" Rudy Giuliani, social conservatives will consider a third-party candidate in 2008. Republican leaders, explains conservative patriarch...
...impossible to resist comparing the America of 1957 with the America of 2007-- and finding the modern version wanting. There was a clear-eyed quality to the U.S. commitment to space and a frank understanding of what it would take to get there. This wasn't an effort built on tax credits for willing industries or bipartisan earmarking. It wasn't a program financed by cooked books or off-budget accounting. Most important, it was sustained by appealing not to what scared us but rather to what elevated us. There's no need to invoke WMD when...