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...locations will be just 2,000 sq. ft., a third as big as most current outlets. That will cut costs, and the result, May hopes, will boost morale and profit margins, which have been sagging. "At FedEx, we talk about walking barefoot 24 miles in the snow to deliver a customer's package," says May. "I want FedEx Kinko's employees to have a dose of that [spirit] as well...
Last year, after tinkering with his boots, he discovered that inserting a composite - as opposed to aluminum or plastic - lift under the sole gave him a better feel on the snow and better performance. Then he did something really crazy: he shared the information with everyone, including competitors. His equipment team flipped, but in the Miller school of philosophy this makes complete sense. Otherwise, he says, "I'm maintaining an unfair advantage over my competitors knowingly, for the purpose of beating them alone. Not for the purpose of enjoying it more or skiing better. To me that's ethically unsound...
...mind, in which an airplane had to make an emergency landing with its front landing gear stuck sideways. And who could forget the tragic Southwest Airlines catastrophe—which came barely two weeks before the Midwest incident—in which a jet trying to land in heavy snow and ice slid off a runway at Midway International Airport in Chicago, crashing through a fence, injuring 10 people, and killing a 6-year...
...schedules.Joshua Miller says he and his fellow Tulane students took advantage of Boston’s colder climate. “We just all went sledding on kitchen trays down Linden Street,” he says. “A bunch of kids from Louisiana had never seen snow.”“[Being at Harvard has] been sort of nice for me because at Tulane I do a crapload of stuff,” Joshua Miller says. “Here…I have time to sit and play my guitar and relax...