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Managers have put up the most resistance. The hardest part of the transition to ROWE, says Tom Blesener, one of the first to go through it, was accepting responsibility for the stress his employees felt. "It was me," he says. "That was hard." Blesener also had to learn how to stop treating his employees as if they were "unruly children," he says. The 44-year-old supervises 27 people who handle the company's extended-warranty services. His 20 hourly employees told him they were sick of punch- ing time clocks. "They felt it was almost inhumane," he says...
...Tom Cruise is not the only celebrity on a spiritual tear. Out-there auteur DAVID LYNCH is opening his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace this week in Hollywood. Lynch, a daily practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for more than 30 years, wants to promote teaching it in schools. "It's a hellhole out there," Lynch says. "This is the way you fix it. The students start getting bright as a shiny penny. It's the home of total knowledge." And we thought we had total knowledge when we figured out who killed Laura Palmer...
...never been more overtly sexual.) That three-step rumba allows a person to assert his victimhood and exceptionalism simultaneously, eliciting sympathy from the faithful and grudging admiration--for hanging in there, for sticking to his guns--from the skeptical. If you think it doesn't work, ask Tom DeLay (still in Congress amid an ethics scandal), Bill O'Reilly (still on the air after a scandal involving phone sex and a loofah) or Barry Bonds (who will be welcomed back by the San Francisco Giants as soon as his knee is better, despite the steroid scandal...
...subscriber’s desktop. Now the technology may get a $100-million-dollar shot in the arm. Palfrey and James F. Moore, a former senior fellow at the Berkman Center, have teamed up with venture capitalists Richard Fishman and Ritchie Capital’s Steve Smith and Tom Crowley to raise $100 million for RSS Investors, LP, the first private equity fund geared toward investing in RSS technology...
...HUPD officers responded to a report of a Peeping Tom. When they arrived on the scene, they did not find any suspicious persons peering through the windows...