Age gaps between CEOs and employees explain some performance ratings. The lukewarm evaluations of CEOs also may point to a generation gap between typically baby boomer-era upper management and Gen X- and Gen Y-age employees and managers. Several experts pointed out that...
Forget the public view of CEOs. In BNET’s exclusive new survey, top managers and execs tell us what the top boss is doing right and wrong.You know the public rap on CEOs: If they’re not grossly overpaid, they’re incompetent or unethical or some combination of all three. But what’s the...
Chief execs aren’t all the overpaid louts they are made out to be. Here’s how their toughest critics — their top managers — rate CEO performance. Judging by news headlines — not to mention convictions — from the last few years, it’s...
Why CEOs lack some critical “soft” skills and don’t realize it. When given a list of a dozen words to describe their CEO, only one in five employees picked “caring” or “warm.” (Small wonder that these words were picked twice...
Every company aspires to innovate, but relatively few CEOs understand how to foster innovation. Perhaps the most disturbing CEO “blind spot” we found in the BNET survey surrounded the topic of innovation. CEOs and their employees disagreed dramatically as to whether good...
When Professor Joseph DeRisi needs human blood to grow a batch of the malaria parasite for his research, he opens his own vein. Given the nationwide blood shortage, he has said, donating his own blood is simply "more ethical." That one fact gives you an idea of the death-zone altitude...
Warner Bros. has optioned the Ethan Watters book "Urban Tribes" and will use it as the template for a drama to be directed by "Roger Dodger" helmet Dylan Kidd. Kidd will write the script with Ira Glass, host of NPR's "This American...
Do different generations approach networking differently? Yes, according to Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment (Bloomsbury, 2003). Watters, a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times Magazine, Spin and Details, among others, said Gen Xers are forming...
Urban Tribes: Are Friends The New Family?By Ethan Watters,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003Reviewed by Simon Young, md of Simon-YoungWriters It says something about the times in which we livethat this book's subtitle is a question. This is not a book thatpurports to give solid answers; instead, it gives the author's bestefforts to...
Ethan Watters coined the phrase "urban tribe" in a 2001 New York Times Magazine article, to describe the groups of college-educated, city- dwelling, twenty- and thirtysomethings who choose to spend an increasingly long period prior to marrying in close-knit networks of friends. Watters moved to San Francisco after graduation and...
Satisfied singlehood is becoming chic. We are talking contented singles, not people living life on hold while looking for a soul mate, say those who monitor the changing social scene. Gratified singles have populated TV shows such as Sex and the City and Will &...
URBAN TRIBES: A GENERATION REDEFINES FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY, AND COMMITMENT BY ETHAN WAITERS BLOOMSBURY USA THIRTY-SOMETHING JOURNALIST ETHAN Waiters discusses many things in Urban Tribes' 200-odd pages: dating, marriage, friendship, evolutionary psychology. His scattered first book, which examines the new social patterns of young, unmarried people in cities, asks why his...
David Townsend's holiday plans have been derailed. Grief is causing him to blot out much of this celebratory season. Townsend, 39, of Indianapolis is burying himself in work to blunt the pain of losing the linchpin of his life: his mother, who died in March. Louise Townsend...
"Years ago, when we were young and new to the city, we called them `orphan Thanksgiving dinners'. We were beginning our careers, scraping by as artists or working as waiters and we often couldn't afford the expense or time to make it back to family for the holiday. At the...
Byline: MARTHA VISSER Justin Phelps, an executive at a computer game company in Silicon Valley, wasn't looking for a new job when a friend in France forwarded him a message posted on a Web site last August. It was for a position as a chief...
I didn't know it back then," Ethan Watters writes of his post-college move to San Francisco, "but I was a harbinger of a massive trend." The trend under discussion is one that will surely be familiar to many readers: the tendency of college-educated young people to delay marriage, often for...
Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--April 13, 2000 Guru.com, the premier marketplace for connecting expert freelance professionals with contract projects, announces the First Annual Guru Awards, a one of a kind event paying special tribute to those gurus whose life and work fully embody the spirit of...
Director Anthony Minghella makes movies you want to listen to, films in which music plays as critical a role as the actors or dialogue. His style isn't of the cue-the-violins-for-the-love-scene variety. The score is as likely to pull against the emotions onscreen as trumpet them. Minghella haunts his characters with...
Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried. By Ethan Watters and Richard Ofshe. Scribner, 1999. ISBN: 0-684-83584-3. 287 pages. Hardcover, $25.00. The sordid history of psychoanalysis comes brilliantly to light in Therapy's Delusions, by Ethan Watters and Richard Ofshe. ...
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