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...bring Amelio two great assets: top talent and a top brand name. Former IBMers say they feel liberated after years of being marginalized as the red ink of Big Blue. "It was more fighting for survival at IBM," says Fran O'Sullivan, now a senior vice president at Lenovo. "We didn't talk about growing." After the acquisition, "there was a real entrepreneurial feel again." There were other benefits too: Lenovo got the rights to use the IBM brand name for five years and snatched the premier Think family of computers. ThinkPad notebooks boast some of the best technology...
...Created a MySpace site and invited a bunch of studio heads to be his "friends." B) Fired the talent agent he has had since he was a starving comic. C) Started dating brunets. D) Resolved to never again steal Christmas...
...biennial (or biennale, to give it the oft-preferred Italian name) affords local and invited international artists a chance to [an error occurred while processing this directive] meet and show off their creations, and provides art lovers with an opportunity to see lots of new work by undiscovered talent. Since about 85% of biennials are government-initiated, there's often a strong community aspect to these events. Instead of disappearing after the opening party, artists often stay on to give workshops and talks, and regional themes predominate at many showings. Locally sponsored events like to take advantage of everyday venues...
Indeed, part of the job of managing such big, creative personalities, ultimately, is listening and staying in the background. Or, as Chloé president Ralph Toledano (no blood relation to Sidney, although they grew up together in Casablanca) puts it, you become master and servant to the design talent. "I spend my life listening to people to see what I can do to help without expecting any kind of return," he says. But Chloé's Toledano also makes sure nobody ever loses sight of the pecking order. "There are some moments you say yes and some moments you say no. There...
Today marriages of business and talent tend to be arranged and can be brokered in a boardroom and followed by a blind date. Sidney Toledano first scouted out Galliano in a rundown studio in a rough part of Paris. Toledano was so impressed, he requested an invitation to sit in the back row, unobserved, at Galliano's next show. It was arranged that Toledano would first meet Dior menswear designer Hedi Slimane in a café (they talked for four hours...