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The Wisdom of Deliberate Mistakes

The Idea in Brief If you're like most managers, you frown on mistakes--yours and others. Why? Your organization demands optimum performance. And it rewards you based on the height of your successes, not the depth of your...

Tags: Failure, Management, Mistakes, RFP, Advertisement, Assumption, David Ogilvy, Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Robert E. Gunther, Harvard Business Review, In Brief

Articles 2008-04-01

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Council candidate withdraws from race for District 7 seat

The Capital-Journal Topekan Craig Gunther said Tuesday he is dropping out of the race for southwest Topeka's District 7 seat on the city council. Gunther, 30, of 3559 S.W. Willow Brook Lane, said he decided the timing wasn't right for him to seek the...

Articles 2009-02-04

A salute to the many heroes of WWII

Congressional Medal of Honor MUNRO, Douglas A. Navy Cross JESTER, Maurice D. HIRSHFIELD, James A. CLARK, Paul Leaman WALSH, Quentin R. CLARK, Paul Leaman Distinguished Service Medal SMITH, Edward H. ...

Articles 2007-09-01

Candidates across state file to run for city posts

Here are Monday's filings for municipal elections. The I denotes an incumbent: Alpine -- Mayor, four years: Kent Hastings, Rubin J. McDougal, Hunt Willoughby. City Council: Two at-large four-year seats -- Thomas Whitchurch I, Jason U. Thelin, Tracy Wallace. Alta -- Mayor, four years:...

Articles 2005-08-16

Mental power tool

The Power of Immposible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and The Life of Your Business By Yoram Wind and Colin Crook with Robert Gunther Wharton School Publishing ($24.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The ways we make sense of our world are determined to a...

Articles 2005-02-01

Broker not liable for boat's lack of muscle

The unhappy purchaser of a used yacht has lost his federal lawsuit against the Baltimore company that posted the 40-foot Sea Ray on its Web site. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. granted summary judgment last week in favor of Gilman Yacht Sales of Maryland...

Articles 2004-07-12

Connecticut Mail Processing E...uipment Firm Buys Out Royalty Agreements.

By Robert A. Hamilton, The Day, New London, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 15--NORWICH, Conn.--Gunther International continued to post red ink during the three-month period ending June 30, but the losses slowed and its cash position improved significantly, according to...

Articles 2003-08-15

Kung Pow: Enter The Fist. (Film Reviews). (movie review)

KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST A 20th Century Fox release of an O Entertainment production. Produced by Paul Marshal, Tom Koranda, Steve Oedekerk. Co-producer, Bruce Devan. Directed, written by Steve Oedekerk. Camera (FotoKem color, Deluxe ...

Articles 2002-01-28

Wharton on Making Decisions - Review

By Stephen J. Hoch and Howard C. Kunreuther with Robert E. Gunther John Wiley & Sons, 2001 339 pages List Price: $29.95 ISBN: 0-471-38247-7 "Did you ever have to make up your mind?" the old song asks. If you work in management,...

Articles 2001-08-01

How to Lead Your Management Buyout

* RICK RICKERTSEN LOVES HIS JOB. AN EXPERienced venture capitalist, Rickertsen has led over 50 management buyouts MBOs. With his book, Buyout: An Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company, Rickertsen shares his knowledge, experience, insight, and especially his enthusiasm for the MBO process, And it's contagious. Combining...

Articles 2001-08-01

Making decisions, Wharton style

Wharton on Making Decisions Editors: Stephen J Hoch, Howard C Kunreuther and Robert E Gunther, Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc THE ART of decision-making is just that - an art. There aren't many people who have mastered...

Articles 2001-06-01

Can the Stock Harket Tell Bank Supervisors Anything They Don't Already Know? - Brief Article

Stock prices provide useful predictive information, even after taking into account past rating information and information from the quarterly financial statements banking organizations file between inspections. Various initiatives have been pursued in recent years to enlarge market forces' role in promoting a safe and sound financial system. Faced...

Articles 2001-04-01

[1] Real Estate Transfers.(Neighbor)(Statistical Data Included)

Property transfers recorded recently in Cook County and nearby areas: Arlington Heights $500,000; 1515 S. Douglas, Arlington Heights, 60005; sold Aug. 29, 2000 by Robert Wulff to Monica Mayer and Edmend Mayer. $435,000; 1111 E. Carlyle Court, Arlington Heights,...

Articles 2000-09-26

Burgermeister Dr. Karl Lueger und seine Beziehungen zur Kunst.(Review) (book review)

Gunther Berger. Burgermeister Dr. Karl Lueger und seine Beziehungen zur Kunst. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang, 1998. 395 pp. The image of the maverick mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, whose historical significance is based on his charismatic Christian-Social populism and his innovative leadership, has...

Articles 2000-06-22

New England Conservatory of Music

New England Conservatory of Music. Mus. sch. in Boston, Mass., founded in Feb. 1867 by Eben Tourjée ( b Warwick, R.I., 1834; d Boston, Mass., 1891) in assoc. with Robert Goldbeck. Within 10 years it was largest mus. sch. in the USA...

Articles 1996-01-01

Don J. Gunther

Bechtel Group appointed Don J. Gunther president of Bechtel Americas; Dean L. Orcutt, president of Bechtel Europe, Africa, Middle East and Southwest Asia; Jude P. Laspa president of Bechtel Asia Pacific; R.C. Johnstone, Jr., president of Bechtel's U.S. Government Contracting Unit; Timothy D. Statton president of Bechtel Power; Gary R....

Articles 1996-01-01