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Within six months, she was appointed full-time coach at her office, at her previous salary. Six months later, IBM's corporate chieftains invited her to the company's global headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. When her successful division was spun off this year to become Home Director, there were several full-time coaches at IBM, and the program was growing. "We've done lots of research over the past three years," says Tanya Clemons, V.P. of global executive and organizational development at IBM, "and we've found that those leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business results...
...staff members were so excited by his performance that they spun themselves into a whopper, telling reporters they had been swamped with favorable calls from viewers around the country. Problem was, the show hadn't aired around the country; it had just finished taping in Chicago...
...blond. His eyes are blue. He could be standing next to an SUV with a surfboard and a smile, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and baggy shorts. Yes, he looks Californian. Very Californian. He's both. That is the beauty of his success. Of all the stories that will be spun from now until the end of the Sydney Games, his is one of the oldest and best success-story stories: the immigrant who has come to a new land and worked hard and overcome obstacles and found exactly what he hoped to find. The American dream...
...left in the campaign and few new policies left to unveil, Bolten's shop will spend much of its time responding to Gore's salvos and returning fire. Last week, as Bush stuck to safe ground, talking about education and visiting his 100th school of the campaign, the shop spun out sheet after sheet of statistics touting Bush's education record and dissecting the alleged failures of Clinton-Gore. Each Bush attack, of course, prompted a to-the-decimal-point response from Gore's brawny policy shop...
...eerily similar line is spun by Dan Cloppis, executive director of USA Badminton. "I mean, it's a lot easier for my children to make it to the Olympics in badminton than basketball," he says of the game he keeps referring to as "the fastest sport in the world" but that also requires him to say the word shuttlecock...