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Resting in a place of honor in Perot's office is a thin business self-help book, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. It serves as a small reminder of the management style that made Perot a billionaire. "If you're in his way, he'll run over you," says a close associate who prefers anonymity to Perot's wrath. "He does not compromise well. Ross has two modes: your way and my way -- and we're going to do it my way." The problem is not that Perot refuses to listen; he in fact delights in bypassing the chain...
...local self-help groups struggled to clear the rubble in South Central and Peter Ueberroth, chairman of a newly formed Rebuild Los Angeles Committee, sought to persuade Japanese as well as U.S. companies to re-enter the sadly charred inner city, units of the 10,000 U.S. troops that had quelled the riots gradually withdrew. Army and Marine Corps regulars pulled out, on the proviso that the Marines would maintain a "rapid reaction" force capable of returning to the streets on three hours' notice. Some National Guard units also started to withdraw, leaving 6,000 Guardsmen still on patrol...
...were wrong; it was that many of the stories read like morality tales, whispering threats about the cost of postponing marriage in favor of having a career. Fear of spinsterhood stormed into the popular culture, giving birth to a whole generation of desperate movie heroines, frantic sitcom spinsters, myriad self-help books...
...Firm. At a casual look, The Firm was a competent, but fairly routine, on-the-run-pursued-by-nasties page turner. But it stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for an entire year, something accomplished by nothing but Dr. Seuss books and the kind of self-help manual that advises you to Hate Your Way to a Firmer, More Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that there can be one (after a certain uncritical mass is reached, a best seller best-sells because it is a best seller)--is that the villains were the partners...
...book's format is simplistic; Chellis gives a self-satisfying rendition of her own "extraordinary" journey from alcoholism and a bad marriage to sobriety and single working motherhood. Then quoting other psychologists and self-help writers, Chellis outlines the process she used in her recovery, a pseudo-scientific plan she dubs "self-empowerment...