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...slight taste of human reality at the banquet of artifice where they sup. They also enjoy the power of the gaffe to generate stories. Like stone soup, a gaffe can provide days of nourishment from almost nothing. A gaffe offers more stages of grief than Elisabeth K?bler-Ross: denial, quibbling, refusal to apologize, qualified apology, slavish apology...
...only one eager to educate her taste buds. "Consumers have developed very sophisticated palates either through travel or exposure," says David Kendall, principal of the Seattle brand consultancy Kendall Ross, which works with a number of wineries. "They are also more curious about the product, the producers, where it came from and how it was made." Fortunately, getting to the top of the class has never been more enjoyable...
...good performance. It galled top GM officials that some of their EDS counterparts were making more money than they were. Finally, some GM units thought that EDS was charging the parent company too much for computer services. "The fundamental problem," said a member of GM's board, "was that Ross could never accept the fact that he had sold EDS and would not be able to maintain the level of autonomy that he was used...
...Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status quo. GM is in trouble, and sooner or later it will have to find a Ross Perot to dig itself out of its problems." Keith Grain, publisher of the weekly Automotive News, seemed disappointed at the turn of events. Said he: "It's a sad day for GM. Ross Perot up to now was a hero to the common man, but he's just had his mouth...
...says he is the kind of guy who likes to "stir things up." No one who has marveled at the freewheeling and shrewdly eccentric career of H. (for Henry) Ross Perot will argue with that description. The blunt-spoken, impulsive founder of Electronic Data Systems, who managed last week both to goad mighty General Motors into an expensive estrangement and get his name involved in Washington's Iran-contra scandal, has been variously called a dictator, a superpatriot and an inspiring, unassuming employer-philanthropist. He is also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats...