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...argument might be made to apply to the Farrelly brothers' dumb-down of the Neil Simon-Elaine May Heartbreak Kid, which I was unkind to last week. But it doesn't work on Sleuth, an art-house effort with more modest box office aspirations, a much loftier collection of talent, on and off screen - and, you'd think, an unwreckable scenario...
...expatriate still sips his midday martini at the foreigners' club. But in the rough-and-tumble markets of China and India, a new generation of expats--they prefer "global executives," thank you--haven't yet had a chance to sign up for membership. They're too busy chasing local talent, adapting to a wildly different culture and riding phenomenal growth in markets vital to their companies' futures. And when they get back to the U.S., make no mistake, they'll jump the queue to the corner office...
While companies may need them more than ever, expats agree that the eventual goal is to make their roles obsolete by developing local talent to take over the reins. That's no easy task. "We're trying to cram in 20 years of knowledge about procedures, communication, project-planning--all the things that make a business work," says Pete Lorenzen, 53, head of global IT support services for IBM in India. Still, helping his employer harness a surging new economy, he says, is "just about the most exciting thing I've done" in a long career. Who needs the foreigners...
...these problems exist, one might as well milk them. Sports fans, instead of buying into the stigmas attached to attractive athletes, should applaud those who have seized their opportunities. And the same goes for the working world. This is not to say women don’t have the talent to be at the top—that would be a ludicrous assertion. But many tend to gripe about this or that women getting ahead because of a pretty face. Whether or not this is true in any particular case should be irrelevant—the fact that women...
...gambling that access will substitute for talent on the teams, which are made up of NFL has-beens and college players who never made it. Why would anyone want to know so much about people they don't care about? TV execs stopped asking that question around the second episode of Survivor...