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Undoubtedly one of the most decisive influences on America's professional cooks was France's nouvelle cuisine, word of which reached this country about 20 years ago. Two messages registered seismic waves. The first was that the chefs were no longer servants but stars, an idea that inspired new talent to take up the profession. Not only did young people gravitate to cooking, but many who had trained for other careers switched. Says Wine: "It used to be that parents proudly said, 'my son the doctor' or 'my son the lawyer.' Now my father says, 'my son the chef...
...says Morton Janklow, an attorney-agent who has shepherded such high-price talent as Judith Krantz and Sidney Sheldon. "Political figures don't create big books. Elvis creates big books. Stockman is a bookkeeper, and political figures are not famous for their candor. They're busily engaged in rewriting history...
...class of women executives are heading upward in U.S. companies, climbing the corporate ladder one rung at a time. They are moving higher on the basis of talent, not family ties. Perhaps the most highly placed of these bootstrap female executives is Verna Gibson, who in May was named president of Limited Stores (see box). With estimated 1985 sales of $800 million, Limited Stores is the largest women's fashion chain...
Companies have discovered that selecting only male candidates means ignoring about half of the best talent available, and many are now actively recruiting women managers. Says Caroline Nahas, a partner at Korn/Ferry International, a Los Angeles-based executive-search firm: "More and more companies realize that a good manager is a good manager regardless...
Peters attributes this reluctance to accept women at the pinnacle of the corporate world to "the clubby atmosphere, the unspoken rules at the top." Since so few senior executives can win the top jobs, talent and qualifications are not the only characteristics determining the victors. Some chief executives seem to be unable to think of the female manager as a stand-in, a potential successor. Says Monet's Evans: "The chief executives of most major U.S. corporations have never worked for or with a superbly qualified woman. They know us only as secretaries, wives and lovers. This group is simply...