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...most important, that you can find something interesting in the lives of people other than celebrities, lawyers and doctors. In CBS's new Undercover Boss, executives go incognito to work in entry-level jobs in their companies. In the premiere, Larry O'Donnell, president and COO of Waste Management, picks up litter and cleans toilets. He learns that a woman driving a garbage route has to pee in a coffee can to keep on schedule; trash sorters are docked two minutes' pay for every minute they're late from their half-hour lunch. He's horrified; he's humbled...
...that's another lesson of school reform: half measures are often the best you can do. "There is an opportunity here to fix schools that haven't worked for a long, long time," says Ben Rayer, the chief charter-school liaison for the School District of Philadelphia and former COO of Mastery. "The money and the desire to do so are there now." It's easy to be paralyzed by the enormousness of the task, he adds. "But man, you just gotta start...
...many deals being offered," says Derrington. "They have to stay sharp." And they'll have to do it without Shaich, a highly respected CEO who will relinquish his day-to-day role this spring, though he will stay on as chairman. A transition is in place - company co-COO Bill Moreton will step into the CEO role. "I worry about keeping the concept special," says Shaich. "Is it worth walking across the street to? It doesn't matter how cheap it is. If it isn't special, there's no reason the business needs to exist...
...Style connoisseurs will coo happily over the packaging: copies come with a whimsically designed notebook and fabric pouch, and a dedicated team puts the time-consuming assemblage together by hand. "No label would be crazy enough to package a CD like this and sell it for the price we do," Tika concedes. "That's why we formed our own label, with each band member as a shareholder, so we could do what we wanted." One really can't imagine Tika having it any other way. See suaratika.com for more...
...like Walmart and Toys "R" Us. Demand for the pets is so high that Zhu Zhus, which retail for $8 at Walmart, are going for $60 on secondary-market sites like Amazon.com and eBay.com. The hamsters, which have names like Mr. Squiggles, Pipsqueak and Num Nums, scoot around and coo like real pets. Kids can add accessories like a car, a skateboard and a wheel to their own little hamster world - without the inevitable mess or traumatic death. "This is the hottest toy of the year," says Gerald Storch, chairman and CEO of Toys "R" Us. "There's absolutely...