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Carroll and Mui believe CEOs should create a corporate atmosphere that encourages challenge and discourages yes-men. It may even pay to designate a person to play devil's advocate--an official skeptic. The authors believe strongly that inside doubts deserve to be aired before outside financial disaster strikes. They should be getting busy now with a revision to include the epic failures currently taking place in the financial system...
...historical role as a bulwark against eastern encroachments. The repulse of the Ottoman Empire's army from Vienna in 1683, when Muslim hordes were feared to be on the verge of overrunning Europe, is still widely commemorated. At the same time, Austrians are among the most euro-skeptic populations on the Continent. Just 28%, in a recent survey, said that they had a positive view of the E.U., a lower percentage even than in Britain. The sanctions imposed on Austria by the E.U. after Haider's strong showing in 1999 seem to have triggered an abiding sense of spite towards...
...believers, this town is hallowed ground; to skeptics, it's an amusement park. But whatever you expect to find here, Lily Dale offers a chastening lesson. I chatted with Ron Ehmke at the Good Vibrations Café; he's here celebrating his 48th birthday. He considers himself an open-minded skeptic, and he thinks America's mood right now is "pretty apocalyptic." But he hasn't come here looking for comfort. He's "come to be challenged by things that defy rationality--kind of like this campaign has defied rationality...
...When we married, my husband was the biggest skeptic there was. He's a very scientific, intelligent man, and he's got to see the science in everything. But he has seen a lot. And now, 25 years later, he can't say he's a skeptic anymore. So he taught me patience. I don't argue with skeptics. They have a right to believe what they want to believe. I respect their opinions and feelings. I just want the same in return...
...Smart rocks would also have to be launched from space in order to hit a missile during boost. One plan would fire the rockets from ''gun pods'' in low orbit so they could speed to the vicinity of a rising Soviet missile. But Ashton Carter of Harvard, an SDI skeptic, points out that such sensors and gun pods would be vulnerable: ''Hovering a couple of hundred kilometers over enemy territory is a very uncomfortable place to operate.'' In fact, the entire SDI apparatus for boost- phase sensing and shoot-down would have to be predeployed in space and would therefore...