Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...what it's like to go stepping on a slippery floor. "When you talk to business people about creativity in a corporate framework, there are normal barriers to understanding," says Gryskiewicz. "But when you focus on creativity in another field, people say, 'My mind's looser. I can suddenly make connections...
...floor run the professional-film manufacturing unit. In 1989 the unit, which had run $1 million over budget, came in $1.5 million under. Such feats should be ballyhooed as an example to other workers, says Paul Schumann, a creativity consultant for Austin-based Technology Futures. His advice to managers: "Make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization...
...workers ("associates" in company parlance) turn out everything from electronics to a new dental product for gum regeneration. Associates are urged to take long chances. "At Gore," says Jeanne Ambruster- Sherry, a biologist who works in the company's sales-and-marketing division, "if you're not making mistakes, you're doing something wrong." Vieve Gore, 77, who co-founded the company with her late husband Bill in 1958, puts it even more emphatically: "Our objective was to make money while having fun. If you're told to do something, it's not as much fun as doing what...
...just order up a good idea or spend money to find one," points out Hallmark's Jon Henderson, director of the company's Creative Resources Center. "You have to build a climate and give people the freedom to create things." Better make that freedom and -- remember -- two candles, a string and paper clips...
...claim that it is better to maintain good relations with Iraq than to isolate it -- the same argument Bush has used to justify continued sales of high-tech equipment to China. But Iraq is far more unpredictable and threatening. Through benign neglect or conscious effort, Washington is helping to make it possible for Saddam Hussein to pursue his own vision of the power balance in the Middle East -- a vision distinctly counter to U.S. interests...