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...Doubleday; 321 pages...
Several foreign owners have enjoyed almost instant success with the U.S. companies they took over. One such corporation is Bertelsmann, the West German media giant, which has engineered turnarounds at RCA Records and Doubleday publishing. But a surprising number of other foreign investors have so far proved luckless on U.S. turf. Among the pitfalls found in TIME's survey...
LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician...
LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A brilliant tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician...
...time when best-selling management-advice books tell corporate leaders how to behave like Attila the Hun, the philosophy at Herman Miller, Inc., is more closely attuned to the gentle precepts of St. Francis of Assisi. As described by chairman Max De Pree, 64, in Leadership Is an Art (Doubleday; $17.95), modern corporations should be communities, not battlefields. At their heart lie "covenants" between executives and employees that rest on "shared commitment to ideas, to issues, to values, to goals, and to management processes. Words such as love, warmth, personal chemistry are certainly pertinent...