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...picture thinking can lead to actions that will help a company survive, even prosper, when the economy is in the doldrums. Unfortunately, few companies know how to refocus to take advantage of this opportunity. Instead, a knowledge vacuum occurs, because workers don't have the information they need to improve their company's performance. I've advised hundreds of companies, and never have I seen a situation in which the employees did not want to know more about how the company really works: How do we make money? Are we profitable? Why? Why not? They want to know. They feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Work in Progress: Know Nothings | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...other hand, the generals may be quite happy to see a week president, because that would give them more power. The military is going to move to fill any political vacuum that arises, and nobody believes that Megawati will last very long. And waiting for her to fail are, on the one hand, ambitious politicians like parliamentary speaker Amien Rais, and on the other hand, the generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indonesia, the Knives Are Out | 5/25/2001 | See Source »

...scrambling for replacement acts. But the passing of the a cappella group that also included GOP Senators Trent Lott and Larry Craig offers huge upside potential for Orrin Hatch: The Utah Senator was never invited into the quartet, but his dreamy spiritual hymns can now fill the vacuum of the post S-Squared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Consequences of the Jeffords Switch | 5/24/2001 | See Source »

...side, Luigi's Mansion is one of several new works from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong and an inductee of the game designers' Hall of Fame. It features Mario's brother ridding his real estate of ghosts with the aid of a flashlight and vacuum cleaner; great game play aside, it's an excuse to show off the GameCube's spectacularly realistic lighting effects. Similarly, the hugely entertaining jet-ski game Wave Race has made an art form of virtual H2O; its foam and raindrops on the camera lens will have you reaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Of Seattle | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

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