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...find the will to try their hardest? Gratitude, perhaps, for being paid so well? It was only a few years ago that cricket learnt a hard lesson - players engaged in matches of which the result scarcely matters to them are vulnerable to the charms of bookmakers. In this latest unseemly grab for cash, that lesson appears to have been forgotten already...
When French director Michel Gondry arrived at MIT to screen his latest film, “Be Kind Rewind,” the very first thing he wanted to do was meet a girl named Star Simpson. Simpson was arrested on Sept. 21, 2007 at the airport for wearing a circuit board with LED lights, which airport employees mistook for a bomb. To law enforcement, “she seemed out of her mind,” Gondry said in an interview at MIT on Feb. 4, “and I can really relate to her craziness...
...latest book, Godin elaborates on 14 new-media marketing trends that, he says, have "fundamentally changed the dynamic of running and growing an organization." Some of the trends, like outsourcing and the Long Tail, are old news. Others, like "the need for an authentic story as the number of sources increases" and "the shift from 'how many' to 'who,'" are fresh and helpful...
Many are about to find out. On Jan. 1, Philips unleashed its latest simplification: a leaner company structure that cuts its divisions from five to three. The sleek new shape, Philips hopes, will help boost its profit margin, before tax, interest and other charges, from last year's 7.7% to beyond 10% by 2010. That would add some $900 million to those earnings based on last year's sales of $39 billion. Preoccupied with its overhaul in recent years, "we haven't been growing to our potential," admits Gerard Kleisterlee, 61, Philips' CEO since 2001. Reversing that, he says, means...
...depends on talismans for good luck--the penny he carries in his pocket or that rubber band strapped around his left wrist. As it stands, he is still too busy attempting to convince his party and its conservative base that he is not to be feared. Witness his latest endorsement road show: Mitt Romney in Boston, George H.W. Bush in Houston and a bunch of big-name Republican Representatives in Washington. These are the moves of a man still speaking to his party's base...