Word: vision
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...initially friendly, he writes, and Kaplan trusted him with his plans, but he eventually felt betrayed when Gates announced a similar, competing product. Rob Glaser, a former Microsoft executive who now runs the company that makes RealAudio, an Internet sound system, is an admirer who compliments Gates on his vision. But, he adds, Gates is "pretty relentless. He's Darwinian. He doesn't look for win-win situations with others, but for ways to make others lose. Success is defined as flattening the competition, not creating excellence." When he was at Microsoft, for example, Glaser says the "atmosphere was like...
...staff belittles that Albright was the "clear choice," ignoring other candidates on Clinton's short list, such as Anthony Lake '61, George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke. Albright was not the clear choice--but most probably the wrong choice. She lacks a consistent and coherent vision for America's role in the post-Cold War world. She admits that her philosophy has been shaped by early life experiences of fleeing Nazis and Communists. But America's next secretary of state should be someone who considers the limitations of U.S. power and the often ambiguous nature of U.S. military interventions instead...
...BLURRED VISION THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY...
...office, [Roemer] was an indispensable person," said Snodgrass. "He had vision, ability and the ability to deal with people very effectively. At the same time, he was a very able and persuasive adviser to ministers [in other countries]. I think that, without exaggeration, hundreds of millions of people in the world were better off because he was there...
...resentment of that fact will undoubtedly hinder the diplomat's relations with some nations. "If somebody has to carry this burden," Michaels says, "he's probably the only one who can pull it off. He's a team builder and a bureaucrat, but the question is, Does he have vision?" His first order of business as secretary general will be stabilizing UN finances. One immediate help would be to convince the U.S. to pay more than $1 billion in back dues. His ability to collect will depend convincing critics in the Republican Congress and the Clinton Administration that...