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...Zhang, who briefly worked for Microsoft before going out on his own, was once fond of quoting Steve Jobs and Jack Welch....
...“We used to have free speech here. We don’t have it,” Marcus says. “The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can’t attack me. I’m 93....
...Inamori’s fame as a management guru in Japan is equivalent to that of the former General Electric boss Jack Welch in the US, but their philosophies were nothing alike....
...But the question we raised is does franchising success ultimately rely on two of America’s most acute pathologies: excessive leverage and exploiting cheap labour?...
...The TV executive resigned on the day Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination; the presidential candidate’s speech reminded some of Richard Nixon’s law and order-themed campaign in 1968, which a...
...It’s an open secret that Nuance powers the speech-recognition capabilities of Apple’s Siri personal assistant, whose capabilities will increase this autumn with the iOS 6 update allowing it to answer questions...
...The move follows the launch this week by Nuance – whose software powers the speech-recognition capabilities of Siri – of Nina, a Siri soundalike that allows third-party developers to build similar functionality...
...(Bloomberg) COMMENT AND CURIOS - Jack Welch was totally, utterly right to say BLS stats were biased, says Jack Welch....
...Natalie Portman won the best actress award for her performance as Nina, the troubled ballerina, in Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed Black Swan, while Melissa Leo took the best supporting actress award for her...
...But Welch’s view about the inept changing of the guard at HP is correct and needed saying....
...Adam Posen, the most dovish MPC member, countered Mr Sentance with a sarcasm-peppered speech likening those who believe inflation will remain high with deniers of climate change....
...Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, the British employers’ group (and a former editor of this newspaper), suggested in a recent speech that “what you might call Jack Welch capitalism” was drawing...
...Since Mr Welch made the concept famous in a speech at New York’s Pierre Hotel in 1981, the short-term goal of rewarding shareholders by increasing profits and dividends every quarter has become a mantra...
...True to form, Mr Welch was the most outspoken....
...Still, it might be a good idea for Schwartz to have another inspiring speech at the ready....
...In a speech to business leaders in New York earlier this month, he sought to reassure people the SEC did not want to “interfere in salary decisions” or to “cap salaries”....
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