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Daschle acknowledged as much in his statement announcing his withdrawal. "If 30 years of exposure to the challenges inherent in our system has taught me anything, it has taught me that this work will require a leader who can operate with the full faith of Congress and the American people, and without distraction," he said. "Right now, I am not that leader, and I will not be a distraction...
...Snickers, M&Ms] and the Americas team to the high-performance, horizontal model. He had willingly given those teams more responsibility and power, so his new team knew he was coming from a place of respect for company values--and a solid track record of results. Past experience had taught Michaels that functional thinking and hidden agendas are classic behaviors exhibited by nonhigh-performing teams. More than a "burning platform" was needed to counter-act old habits and the natural tendency toward standpattism. Michaels' solution was to take his team through an "alignment"--an essential step in the transformation process...
...started in 1989 at Kianshahr's Badr Center in Shahre-Rey, a sprawling, mostly working-class suburb of Tehran, whose population is 30% Afghan. Iran Mokhtari, now 57, was one of the first recruits. Although she had only a primary-school education, she was taught the information that she needed to pass on in her community. Stopping at a home on her street, she rings a neighbor's doorbell. "Open up. I'm your health volunteer," she says, and instantly, the door is buzzed open. Inside, she tells 26-year-old Azizeh Mohammadi that she should come to the health...
Lamont, who did his doctoral studies under Stein at MIT and previously taught finance at the Yale School of Management, said he was prepared to take on Stein’s duties and that the University would be able to weather his older colleague’s absence...
...this is remarkable if the allegations against Park Dae Sung are correct. According to his lawyer, Park taught himself economics, reading books on the subject since 1997. Indeed, there are some skeptics. The conservative monthly ShinDongA claims that Park may not be the real Minerva at all and that a group of eight other bloggers have professed to writing under the alias. Park's lawyer says the magazine's allegation is "nonsense...