Sublime

1. A fundamental knowledge of the area he or she has been hired to manage.

“I now bleed Morgan blood,” he says. “This is what I am going to do until they don’t want me here anymore.”

Miles Gilburne,

Regardless of the size of an employee’s check or the requirements of his or her job, I made it clear that he or she was 100 percent a member of our team, whether he or she was a superstar or secretary, black or white, manager or maintenance man.

The first feature of an O&I that allowed for these effects was the breadth and depth of the teams that it was able to assemble, and prompt dialogue between. In order to assemble these teams and facilitate discussion, an O&I depended on someone who could “own” the operation of the forum. The voice that the Task Force’s teams heard open every

Gore Associates,

Howie, inside Morgan Stanley, would lose $9 billion on a single mortgage trade, and remain essentially unknown, without anyone beyond a small circle inside Morgan Stanley ever hearing about what he’d done, or why.