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...turnaround job can't be done simply by cutting costs. "George Fisher is not just coming in to chop heads," says Michael Geran, an analyst at Pershing & Co. "He's a builder, not a destroyer. He's coming in to reinvent and re-energize the company." That's a challenge his successor at Motorola can gratefully skip...
BUSINESS: A Builder, Not a Slasher...
...pictures, they say, with 30,000 drawings and half a million prints), better sampled in the galleries outside the palace that are always open to the public and have no queues. Buckingham Palace does contain some great pictures though. Most are from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy, amid the grand, vaporous profusion...
...They have two approaches they can take, regardless of whether men are in the organization," she says. "One is to be aggressive, to be almost insensitive sometimes. The other option is to be more of a team-builder. That's what works for me the best...
Clinton came to office with a deserved reputation as a consensus builder. "He tried that right off with the Joint Chiefs over the issue of gays in the military, and got swatted down by Colin Powell and Sam Nunn," says an Administration official. Competing lessons were drawn from that early dustup. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said, "Obviously, a lot more consultation with key players like Nunn" would have helped. Clinton's rhetoric agreed, but his actions since often haven't. "A quote in an article back then still bothers him," says a Clinton aide. "The one where a Senator said...