Sublime

Lancelot frowns. ‘We’re not going to the Department?’ ‘Ah, no,’ says Marlowe. He clears his throat. ‘As I said, there have been one or two changes.’ ‘Such as?’ ‘Well, the whole sector’s been privatised. Musty old intelligence agencies broken up and sold to US private equity firms. That sort of thing. The services previously provided by the Departme

inchoate

it all was somehow grander, more in the old spirit than the actual world. The world of German hegemony.

“Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.”

denouement.

film. Le directeur ne le convoque pas, mais l’invite à passer dans son bureau et le traite désormais en VIP – comme si, avant, c’était une blague, un jeu de rôles qu’on peut, la partie terminée, commenter entre gens de bonne compagnie. Il lui fait signer son exemplaire du Livre des eaux, s’inquiète du souvenir que l’ex-détenu de marque gardera de s

Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,