Word: thought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter Jennie. Ticketholder #4. A junior who probably thought we were all slightly nuts. On the way back home, she will admit that one racing scene is making her want to drive a little faster than usual. But for now, she asks, "Um, where are we going...
There are lots of details that can strangle a $48 billion merger--different accounting practices, the need to rationalize information technology, patent ownerships--and Tom Stallkamp thought he'd worked through them all. As president of Chrysler, he had helped orchestrate the American company's merger with Germany's Daimler-Benz. But last November, as the new outfit, DaimlerChrysler, approached the date it would debut on the New York Stock Exchange, the whole thing stalled seemingly over whether the company would use American- or European-size business cards. The more tradition-bound Germans dug in their heels, not surprisingly...
...Mercedes-Benz U.S. headquarters in Montvale, N.J. As the Germans presented their view of the brand hierarchy--Mercedes on top and everything else far, far below--the tension in the room was palpable. Says Holden: "We felt like we were marrying up, and it was clear they thought they were marrying down...
...York in order to reduce travel stress for both sides. The corporate-communications department, which has lost top staff members to cross-cultural tension (remember the business cards?) and job competition, last month hired an outside facilitator to help the communicators communicate with one another. "I never thought much of outside consultants," admits Roland Klein, a senior vice president for corporate communications. "But this seemed to work very well...
...poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying tears of joy. At a multiplex across the street, Fox is holding one of the first screenings of The Phantom Menace. You can see a flicker of hesitation on the faces of a few Phantom ticket holders. I thought I was in the red-hot center, the flicker seems to say. What's going on over there...