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Jobson recently met over lunch with Brabeck, who is on the road more often than he is in Vevey. Brabeck estimates he meets from 2,000 to 3,000 Nestle staff members every year, about 10% of the work force. He pays particular attention to about 150 up-and-coming managers, trying to get to know them and their spouses...
Back in Austria, he abandoned plans to earn a doctorate, joined Findus and was soon posted to Chile. President Salvador Allende was then in power trying to implement his "Chilean road to socialism," and Brabeck recalls spending much of his time trying to dissuade government officials from nationalizing milk production. He also had to deal with militant labor officials on the factory floor who could bring operations to a standstill...
...Harvard section when the two teams meet in Cambridge. This year, any hope of home ice advantage, if it ever truly existed, will go out the window, as the “home” crowd will be more hostile than what you’ll find at most road contests...
This does not, however, mean that Australia's road to multi-culti has been stoneless. Translated into government policy, multi-culti in the 1980s became, its critics say, not just a neutral recognition of diversity but a pork barrel for buying the temporary loyalties of ethnic groups...
...wins, the last major barricade to reform falls, and the road ahead of him is cleared," explains political analyst Dominique Reynié. "If he fails or compromises the measure away, the unions come out strengthened, and he has to face the anger of his own conservative backers who will accuse him of selling...