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Published at the tail end of the most painful recession since the Great Depression, In Search of Excellence could hardly have been more timely. American business, criticized for its sluggish productivity growth and stung by foreign competition, was searching for solutions. For a while, books on Japanese management, like Theory Z, were the rage. Then many executives became intrigued with The One Minute Manager, a piece of pop psychology claiming that employees could be spurred to greater productivity by "one-minute praisings" and "one-minute reprimands." Written by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson, Manager has been...
Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA, speculates that the Soviet Union was so stung by its inept handling of a similar, 1978 Korean airliner intrusion over their territory that individual air-defense units now have standing orders to direct any interlopers to land and to shoot them down if they do not. "Their priorities are different from ours," Inman says. "They place highest priority not on human lives but on preventing penetration of their airspace." The Kremlin had time last week to learn what was happening at the lower command levels, Inman suggests...
...tinged with sexism. Said General Manager Monte Newman of Chicago's WMAQ: "The people in charge were incredibly dumb." When Craft negotiated with KMBC for the $35,000 job in 1980, she told the station's management that she had resented being "made over" as a bee-stung-lipped, bleached blond for a previous post as a CBS network sports reporter in 1977-78. KMBC'S management assured Craft that it would not seek to change her image, then turned her over to Media Associates of Dallas for training in makeup and hairstyling; the station also...
Last summer several children in a Harvard daycare center entered hospitals after being stung by German yellow pickets. The center called on Gary D. Alpert Post control officer of the EHS to help present the children from being stung in the future. Alpert found that the vicious insects are attracted to substances continuing protein he also realized that the children ate their lunches out doors and that many brought tuna fish sandwiches, rich in protein. He solved the problem by destroying local insect colonies and having the children cat meals indoors...
...Stung by passage of a congressional nuclear-freeze resolution, President Reagan took pains to describe the possible softening of the Soviet position as "encouraging." Said he: "We're going to give this serious consideration, as we do any proposal that they make." But Reagan added that a fuller analysis of the ambiguity-ridden Soviet plan would have to await the return to Geneva of U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze...