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...talk about how winning strategies aren't transitive. What's the lesson for managers? One mistake managers make is they'll read a book that says: Here are the eight things great managers do. They figure if they just live up to those attributes then they'll succeed. Well, no. It's not the attributes that matter, it's the circumstances - what's going on around them. Almost all successful strategies are circumstance-based, not attribute-based. Boeing, for instance, a very smart company, had outsourced a lot of their products, but then they outsourced the design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

PowerPlay: Georgina executes the perfect morning-after talk, diffuses Dan's awkward let's-just-be-friends proposal with her breezy pizza invite, then worms her way into an unsuspecting Dan's life...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: Lost in "The Lost Boy" | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

Collier Winters doesn’t like to talk about himself. But last Friday against Brown, there was no need. His performance spoke for itself...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quarterback Quietly Leads Team to Win | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

While his teammates are quick to praise him, Winters diverts questions about his own performance, preferring to talk about his teammates...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quarterback Quietly Leads Team to Win | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...This week, however, Iran heads into talks in Geneva with the U.S. and five other world powers more vulnerable at home and abroad than at any time since the revolution's chaotic early days. Despite defiant talk and a weekend display of military force, the world's only theocracy begins its most important diplomatic engagement in three decades in real trouble. (See international protests of Iran's election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to Chaos — Tracking Iran's Four-Month Slide | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

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