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...then there was that thing about the corked bat. Following last Tuesday's discovery that Sosa was using an illegal bat in a game against Tampa Bay, the denunciations extended all the way to his home country of the Dominican Republic.? "We can't forgive him. He smears all Dominicans with what he did," 16-year-old Rolfi Lajana Santana, of Sosa's hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, told the Orlando Sentinel.? Ouch.? Sosa says the whole thing was an accident, that he used a practice bat in a game. Seattle Mariners third baseman Jeff Cirillo (who, it must...
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...clumsily. Team-building junkets (even to St. Croix) don't work, nor do positive-attitude lapel buttons. Successful motivation requires careful thinking about how to encourage accomplishments that make a difference to the bottom line and how to tailor incentives to individual employees. After a manager in the Tampa, Fla., office of Aetna, for example, started pizza parties tied to quality measures for rank-and-file workers, backlogs fell sharply. (Katzenbach does note that pay is the best motivator for upper-level executives, whose potential earnings from bonuses and stock options are enormous...
...lawmakers like Carl Carpenter. Back in 1987, Carpenter's mother Ruth suffered a stroke, making it almost impossible for her to talk. But she always wanted to hear from her adult children and excitedly answered when the phone rang in her small apartment in Plant City, Fla., east of Tampa. Trouble was, most of the calls were from telemarketers. She was finally driven to create a code for her family: whenever they called, they should let the phone ring three times, hang up and then call back...
...mound by singing to himself and stays focused between innings by not talking to his teammates. But as intense as he is about baseball, the first word Morgalis picks to describe himself is goofy. After getting rocked by major leaguers during a game between the Fighting Irish and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, he describes his performance as “a little shaky” with a grin...