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...It covered the highlights of what would become In Search of Excellence, my book with Bob Waterman....
...Martin Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal, compares Mr Musk to a “21st century Isambard Kingdom Brunel”, the legendary engineer whose ingenious designs for railways and steamships revolutionised transport...
...Last week, Dayton Power & Light, a subsidiary of AES Corp, announced it planned to shut two coal-fired plants in Ohio next year....
...• Schroders has hired Courtney Waterman as head of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...Withings’ Aura is an intelligent bedside clock, designed to look a bit like an old steamship funnel, which connects to a long pad placed under the mattress to measure sleep patterns....
...Mr Springford is not a “dyed-in the wool waterman”. His background is in road haulage but he has a small business collecting rubbish from Thames boats....
...Even successful management theories, such as those espoused by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in In Search of Excellence or by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in Built to Last, tarnish with time, as the companies...
...“He made me the president of Canada Steamship Lines when I was 33,” Mr Martin, 75, said on Wednesday....
...Its application for receivership follows the bankruptcy last year of Sanko Steamship, while another Japanese competitor, Daiichi, received emergency financing from a large shareholder in October....
...Dame Fanny Waterman, diminutive doyenne of English piano teachers, hugs him around the knees and marches him off to a corner to compare notes about piano teaching....
...Jared Waterman, director of financial planning at Pandora Media, the internet radio company, faced a problem because of the growth of the business....
...In July, Sanko Steamship filed for bankruptcy with $2bn of debt – a victim of shipping oversupply, rising fuel prices and declining freight charges....
...Shipowners worldwide could be facing the biggest single default of the global shipping crisis after Sanko Steamship, one of Japan’s largest privately held shipping lines, asked owners of its more than 150...
...The crisis forced General Maritime, the second-largest US-based oil tanker owner by fleet size, into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November and threatens the future of Sanko Steamship, one of Japan...
...They’re like a steamship, not very flexible. We’re used to going pretty fast. Second is that we just didn’t want to teach them everything, which they could go and sell to our competitors.”...
...The campaign, led by Pete Waterman, the record producer who also founded a train maintenance business, will be a test of Cheshire’s lobbying clout....
...gaudy blue-painted boat on the muddy River Pará in the Brazilian Amazon looked like something out of Fitzcaraldo, the Werner Herzog film about a rubber baron, who at the start of the 20th century drags a steamship...
...Mr Kiechel quotes from the opening chapter of In Search of Excellence (1981), the anti-strategy best-seller written by those two McKinsey mavericks, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman....
...“It’s different to traditional broadcast because as you get more users, the costs go up,” says Darren Waterman, a director at PwC’s media strategy unit....
...We do not worry that steamships stole the margins of sailing fleet operators. Other practices are less innocuous....
...“To some extent what Waterman and I were looking at was the business of ‘execution’, and execution is fundamentally a management thing....
...Aged 21, Doriot sailed by steamship to the US from his native France and went on to become a brigadier general in the second world war, one of the most influential professors at Harvard Business School and...
...Another FT columnist, Michael Skapinker, missed Tom Peters’ and Robert Waterman’s flawed, but influential In Search of Excellence....
...Another FT columnist, Michael Skapinker, missed Tom Peters’ and Robert Waterman’s flawed but influential In Search of Excellence....
...Jeremie Waterman, a director at the US Chamber of Commerce, said the goal of the dialogue for business was to “institute practices to allow mergers and acquisitions, allow trade and allow capital to flow...
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