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...Fortunately, Slice can channel his anger for the match. Thompson, his main event opponent, is talking plenty of trash, and looking to crush Kimbo's legend. "Obviously, Kimbo hasn't been tested," says Thompson. "No one, not the best MMA fighter in the world, will be able to live up to that hype." Thompson promises to go on the offensive, but Kimbo brushes the tough talk aside. "If he comes with aggression, that's like gasoline igniting a fire," Kimbo says...
...Like many pro athletes, MMA fighters like to think of themselves as performers at heart, as skilled at marketing as they are at their athletic moves. "Watch the Colossus conquer Kimbo," Thompson says. "It's going to be a great night for whole family." Then again, if too many families watch the sport, CBS could find itself the one getting beaten...
...Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Minneapolis was just another cubicle beehive buzzing with nine-to-fivers. Today, the electronics retail giant is leading a workplace revolution. Two employees - Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson - brought about the change by proposing a radical approach to work. Dubbed ROWE, or Results-Only Work Environment, the concept can be boiled down to the following...
...Best Buy has seen productivity soar 41% between 2005 and 2007 on ROWE teams. Meanwhile, voluntary turnover plunged 90%, saving the company some $16 million a year. Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson has embraced the program and has applied it to 80% of the staff at headquarters. Ressler and Thompson, who have since left Best Buy to found a consulting company called CultureRx, have co-authored a book detailing their experiment. Why Work Sucks - and How to Fix It is due out June 2. They spoke to TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen...
...Thompson: Best Buy was considered a great place to work, but the work environment was much like any across America: lots of face time, lots of hours, lots of meetings. When we started to think about destructuring, we did not benchmark. Work-life programs have been around for 40 years, and they don't work...