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While paying due respect to talent and toughness, the authors argue that it is often the small kindnesses--the smiles, gestures, compliments and favors--that take women to the top, women such as eBay's Whitman and of course Xerox's Mulcahy. Yes, both authors claim these women for their teams...
...their success in part to practicing what they preach in their 195-employee office. (Of course, having terrific creative work helps too.) At Kaplan Thaler, everyone gets a callback, and every résumé gets answered. "We may not have a job for somebody," says Thaler, "but everybody deserves the respect of not having their résumé thrown in the garbage...
...Camp is a record of a crime--the theft of childhood by possibly well-intended but narrowly ideological adults. Its subjects, of course, don't see it that way. Fischer has said it's great publicity for her endeavors. And Ewing sees her point. "It's hard not to respect people who have deep passions," she says. Neither she nor Grady can entirely fathom why the Evangelicals feel so profoundly threatened in a largely tolerant U.S. They speculate that casual, unthinking secularism, represented by everything from the TV schedule to Wal-Mart's groaning shelves, makes these Evangelicals feel encircled...
...Following in a parent's footsteps, knowing firsthand the unusual life of a doc and stoking the early fires of a developing superego with such high octane respect and responsibility that scarcely any other human endeavor seems worthy - this is the psychology that makes doctors' kids into doctors. There are, quite honestly, many in my field of surgery who will work for any salary - some would literally pay to do it. They can derive satisfaction from little else, their self-concept is utterly enmeshed in it and doctor's children or not, they will be doctors in the next generation...
...have the membership numbers of the Harvard College Democrats or the Harvard Republican Club. Groups like the Socialist Alternative, the May Day Coalition, the Student Labor Action Movement, and other projects spearheaded by the campus left are in a similar position to HRL with respect to membership size...