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Others have tried to change the company and failed. The last CEO, Jacques Nasser, once considered a hero, shook things up with tough performance evaluations and a hyperaggressive management style that alienated workers, dealers and suppliers. He also diversified the company into noncore businesses such as Internet ventures and a repair-shop chain while going on an acquisition spree of luxury brands. After Bill Ford fired Nasser and stepped into the CEO job, his gentler approach was a relief, yet some industry executives are skeptical. "So far, the company's driving him," says Gerald Meyers, former CEO of the defunct...
...David Wong, a native of Nanjing, China, is literally taking the Chinatown out of his company. Instead of operating in traffic-clogged Chinatown, Wong chose Penn Station, a major Manhattan transportation hub, as the base for his Eastern Travel & Tour Inc. More important, inspired by David Neeleman, whose JetBlue shook up the airline industry, Wong hopes to remake the bus-trip experience into a paragon of customer service. Wong and his four partners, one Spanish and the rest Chinese, are emphasizing service. "I don't want to copy from Greyhound," says Wong, who earned his M.B.A. from Indiana State University...
Bush and Clinton shook off a barrage of griping--interference, they called it--from longtime allies who said each was being used by the other. A veteran Bush aide tells TIME he pressed 41 about the partnership in a call last summer and was abruptly waved off. "Don't start with me," Bush told him. "Clinton's been very deferential, and we've been doing good things." When Clinton got the same treatment from a well-known Democratic operative this fall, an aide reports that he exploded and said, "This is much more important than politics...
Hallucinogenics, PCP, sheets of acid. I woke up one day and shook the drugs off…I smoke pot as a mood stabilizer because I don’t want anti-depressants. I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do any hard drugs…I woke up in a different skin; I no longer wanted to repesent any of that shit anymore…In changing my life, the record changed at the same time...
...sudden, the guy completely cooled off and started acting really weird and standoffish,” recalls Aguero. “After I finished my hot chocolate, we said ‘bye,’ shook hands, and that was that. He removed me from his Facebook friend list a week later. I never heard from him again...