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...attentive to traditional social-protection priorities, but also palatable to job- and wealth-producing businesses. That's a balancing act Strauss-Kahn mastered in the past. As economic czar, Strauss-Kahn's reformist pragmatism won the confidence of both financial markets and French voters - making him a favorite to succeed Jospin as Prime Minister in the event of a win by the left...
Many of the fired workers and their supporters are attacking the cuts as unnecessary and poorly handled--and antithetical to the company Michael Dell created. The Dell culture is fiercely meritocratic, with workers expected to do whatever it takes to make the company succeed. The reward: rich option packages that turned many thirtyish tech workers into millionaires or, as Austin calls them, Dellionaires...
...here started to get in the way of the play’s coherence and power. Stephen, Scott’s Son is still an ambitious attempt to get that whole quest for greatness complex that taunts so many of us. Even if it doesn’t completely succeed, you can tell that like Stephen, the play desires greatness on a grand scale. So then the question is: What does it matter if, in reaching for glory, you don’t quite make...
...many respects, it is not Harvard as a teaching institution that makes students here successful, but rather the selection criteria and applicant pool that allow highly motivated, upwardly mobile students to attend—students who will succeed anyway—and allow Harvard to ride its students’ coattails to name recognition. Harvard maintains its “greatness” through its social momentum, a culturally ingrained self-fulfilling prophecy. People believe Harvard provides an excellent education and that this education is what allows for success, when in reality much of the success that Harvard students enjoy...
...over each decision. He likes multilingual candidates, and he demands multicultural savvy--people who have worked for companies based in different countries, even if they themselves have never left Brazil. Says Puritz: "If people don't have that intellectual dexterity of understanding how other cultures work, they won't succeed in this business." That's a sentiment chanted over and over again by other executives at international firms. "You need to borrow the know-how of local culture and local law," says Cendant's Pfeffer. "It's important that you not project any arrogance...