Word: strength
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tepper, 26, is one of a growing number of producers who are seeking out that crowd. She has co-produced three shows that have thrived largely on the strength of the younger audience: Freak, John Leguizamo's one-man show that had a successful Broadway run last season; I'm Still Here...Damn It!, Sandra Bernhard's monologue-plus-music, which has just opened on Broadway after a hit engagement downtown; and De La Guarda, a performance troupe from Argentina that has become a hot off-Broadway attraction. Joining them are a batch of new plays making a determined effort...
...marrying Netscape and taking Sun as a mistress, that's how. Netscape gives Case both a battalion of geek programmers and the software they've been working on, from industrial-strength Web tools to the back-office e-commerce programs that Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale was peddling to corporate customers before he abruptly, and wisely, folded his cards...
...that we have feelings, and we do have a few, but they remain submerged, and the airing of them often violates their authenticity. We are, as a gender, as dull as we seem. Contrary to the claptrap of the men's movement, men gain power through not talking. "The strength of the genie," said poet Richard Wilbur, "comes from being in a bottle." I'm no biologist, but my guess is that the male human animal was programmed for silence. One can make us talk counter to our genetic makeup, but it is like training kangaroos...
Ford's great strength was the manufacturing process--not invention. Long before he started a car company, he was an inveterate tinkerer, known for picking up loose scraps of metal and wire and turning them into machines. He'd been putting cars together since 1891. Although by no means the first popular automobile, the Model T showed the world just how innovative Ford was at combining technology and markets...
...beginning of the 1980s, 45-year-old Jack Welch became CEO of another giant, General Electric. Farsighted, incisive--and controversial--he recognized the threat of competition from Japan and elsewhere and had the intellectual and emotional strength to deal with it. He set the tone for U.S. industry. GE became highly productive by undertaking a complex reorganization that simplified the company into one with dominant positions in its carefully chosen businesses. Welch then remade GE into a boundaryless organization that encouraged, and got, participation from employees at all levels. He extinguished turf wars and the not-invented-here syndrome that...