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...everywhere. Shikar Gosh, cofounder of an Internet software company called Open Market, whose work force surged from fewer than 20 people to more than 350 last year, now can't find expanded office space. "The situation is outrageous," he says. "There just isn't anything available." Pamela Reeve, CEO of software provider Lightbridge, has her own gauge of vibrant growth. "I look at how bad the traffic is on 128 and how busy the local restaurants are at lunch," Reeve says. "The traffic is horrible, and the restaurants are booked...
...Netscape keeping him awake at nights. He may be a bit less exhausting and a bit more civil. But he still pushes as hard, still keeps score." Gates likes repeating Michael Jordan's mantra--"They think I'm through, they think I'm through"--and the one Intel's CEO Andrew Grove used as a book title, "Only the paranoid survive." As Ballmer says, "He still feels he must run scared." Gates puts another spin on it: "I still feel this is superfun...
...years, the top brass at Sears, Roebuck and Co. had nary a clue. Store managers saw nothing amiss in displaying intimate apparel from the same rack fixtures that were used to sell paints. "Sears frustrated and disappointed our customers over a long period of time," says chairman and CEO Arthur Martinez, who arrived in 1992 from Saks Fifth Avenue, where he had been vice chairman, with prayerful instructions to save the Big Store. "If we didn't act quickly, the end game was a slow death for the company...
...frenzy the children set the ultra-laser-bearing Power Rangers loose on the locked doors, then pour out to march on Cruella's office, singing, "Arise, ye prisoners of globalization!/ We're going to find the ceo, the wonderful ceo of toys/ We're kids too, he's bound to see/ Then he'll downsize Cruella and set us free...
Finally, after moving up through subcontractors from Tijuana to Taipei in their search for Santa, the kids get to the Manhattan headquarters of We R Toys Inc. They ascend to the top floor, where they've been told the ceo will be found, and knock timidly on the boardroom door. But alas, they find only a group of identical pudding-faced men in pinstriped suits, sitting around an oval table. One of the executives rises and smiles warmly at the kids. "We heard about the personnel problems down at Pure Joy, and do we have a big surprise...