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...Whitefield, SAP relies on the area's computer scientists and engineers to carry out its most critical activity. More than 10% of the patents filed by SAP originate in Bangalore, and the influx of Indian engineers is accelerating the adoption of English at SAP and loosening up its traditionally rigid attitude toward software engineering, says Martin Prinz, the joint managing director of SAP Labs India. "The Bangalore center is starting to change...
...These problems were caused primarily by a myopic zeal to be the first news organization to broadcast what was believed to be a new story ... and the rigid and blind defense of the segment after it aired despite numerous indications of its shortcomings...
...Most CEOS say, 'Follow me,'" says Suh Doo Chil. "I say, 'Let's go.'" As boss of South Korean telecom- equipment supplier Eastel Systems, Suh is confronting his country's rigid corporate culture. When he took over as CEO three years ago, the company had posted a $57 million loss, debt was out of control, and engineers were heading for the exits. Suh started paring debt and halved the work force, a gutsy move in layoff-averse Korea. The hard-driving Suh, who counts Jack Welch and Margaret Thatcher among his heroes, dismantled Eastel Systems' hierarchy, which stopped anybody from...
...never been a member of Japan's insular financial community. "I don't follow the Japanese way of doing things," he says. Yashiro talks about competition, profitability and performance--words rarely heard until recently among Japanese bankers. At Shinsei, Yashiro abolished promotions and raises based on seniority, the rigid classification of employees according to education and the hierarchical wearing of uniforms by the assistant-level "office ladies" at company headquarters. Then he really took on Japan's business practices. Employing un-Japanese ruthlessness, he slashed the bad-loan ratio to 5.7%, down from 20%, and then launched service-oriented...
...long story short, Kline’s painting was much more interesting to look at than I had first supposed, and I think my return trip to the gallery provided a valuable lesson: You can get into trouble if you approach art with concepts or catagories that are too rigid, especially if you try to frame your experience of the work in terms of these preconcieved notions. Sometimes I think the best thing to do is simply sit back and let the paintings talk to you, and to each other...