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...American businessmen too rational and restrained for their own good? In a world where the M.B.A. is a major status symbol, executives are deluged with exhortations to plan ever more precisely, to analyze ever more rigorously. Veteran Business Journalist Roy Rowan, however, has some refreshingly different advice. In The Intuitive Manager (Little, Brown; $15.95), Rowan, a longtime correspondent for LIFE and TIME and for the past eight years a FORTUNE editor, celebrates what he calls the Eureka factor, the sudden, illuminating flash of judgment that actually guides many business leaders...
Logic is only one part of decision making, Rowan contends; it is often the daring, instinctual leap that can make all the difference. "Hunch is an odious word to the professional manager," he writes. "It's a horseplayer's . . . term, rife with imprecision and unpredictability." Yet the hunch continues to be a major managerial tool. Salting his argument with lively anecdotes and conversations with some 70 chief executives, Rowan makes an impressive and entertaining case...
...Cosmos Club, that 107-year-old Washington institution with the slightly seedy lobby and stately French Renaissance facade. In 1962 the club's rule excluding blacks was dropped, but only after several members resigned and President John F. Kennedy's nomination was withdrawn over the blackballing of Carl Rowan. Now the issue concerns the policy encapsulated by a small gold sign at the base of the club's red-carpeted staircase: MEMBERS AND MALE GUESTS ONLY AT THIS HOUR. Not since its founding in 1878 has the 3,000-member Cosmos included a woman...
...failure to repudiate Farrakhan caused outrage in several respected quarters. The New Republic, a leading liberal magazine with a strong pro-Israel slant, editorialized that Jackson's "potential for blighting the future of interracial politics and for wounding the Democratic Party now seems great indeed." Carl T. Rowan, the most widely circulated black columnist, warned that Jackson might be stirring a white backlash that would help re-elect Reagan, "in which case Jackson is going to have to face the conscience-searing question: Why, in his stubborn embrace of a few black demagogues, he has made it so easy...
...areas of the budget needed to make that mean something. Federal cuts in the comprehensive Employment and Training Act damage hopes for development by, for example, forcing the closing of a vocational-technical center at the Wyoming Indian High School which serves the Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians. As Robert Rowan, the principal of the school, remarks: "They want to see Indians control their own destiny, but they're cutting the areas that would provide the Indians with the direction...