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...Microsystems, which ranks its 43,000 employees in three groups (20% are "superior"; 70% are "Sun Standard"; 10% are "underperforming"), the company alerts weak links to their tenuous status and provides one-on-one coaching to help redeem their performance. Sun CEO Scott McNealy is known around the company for saying the bottom 10% is where you "love them to death." But any workers who don't respond to McNealy's love are offered death in the form of "prompt exit" severance, which they turn down at their peril, since those who continue to be found wanting face dismissal without...
...Microsystems, which ranks its 43,000 employees in three groups (20% are "superior"; 70% are "Sun Standard"; 10% are "underperforming"), the company alerts weak links to their tenuous status and provides one-on-one coaching to help redeem their performance. Sun CEO Scott McNealy is known around the company for saying the bottom 10% is where you "love them to death." But any workers who don't respond to McNealy's love are offered death in the form of "prompt exit" severance, which they turn down at their peril, since those who continue to be found wanting face dismissal without...
Before Rudenstine’s arrival, the University bid for 52 acres in Allston under a different name. The actual deal went through under his tenure, and when word leaked out that the buyer was Harvard, town-gown relations, already tenuous, spiraled downward. Rudenstine, in retrospect, readily admits his mistake...
Maybe it was the warm weather. Maybe it was that the expected onslaught of anti-globalism protests never materialized. And maybe it was the U.S.'s first-quarter GDP numbers. But considering the currently tenuous state of the global economy - slowdown in the U.S., slowdown in Europe, recession in Japan, not to mention the ongoing meltdowns in Turkey and Argentina - this weekend's meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the G7 industrialized nations was a surprisingly cheery affair...
...political rivals who had previously helped him keep the more popular Megawati Sukarnoputri out of the presidency. In order to defuse popular anger at the time, Wahid had given Megawati the vice presidency, thereby forging a coalition in which his grip on power was always going to be tenuous. Now his rivals are withdrawing their support in what observers believe is mostly a power-play to get rid of an ailing president blasted by his critics for arrogance and incompetence...