TGV Rockets Operations manual: "The purpose of this minor monograph is to establish a basic view to running a firm and create a corporate culture. Sadly, the legal environment will not allow this to be binding, but it will express how I feel about things and should be used to settle any discussion. The basic method of operations is very simple: Treat people like human beings. Sadly, simple as this idea is, almost no organization in the world is capable of doing this. Uniforms replace identity, rules replace initiative, and hierarchy dominates over creativity. The usual first sign of this kind of problem is when an organization chart is released. Whenever an org. chart appears at TGV, it�s time to short the stock."
NEWS : "The 40-year-old Mr. Everett was raised in McLean, Va., with his sister Elizabeth, mother Nancy and father Hugh Everett III, a quantum physicist who in 1957 proposed a formal theory of parallel universes known as 'The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.' 'Everett's work has boggled minds inside and outside physics for more than four decades,' reported Scientific American in last month's issue.
Mr. Everett said his brilliant father wasn't communicative at home. When I asked him what the conversation was like around the breakfast table, he replied, 'There wasn't any.'
'Physicists and geniuses don't always make great family men. I lived with him for 18 years and I learned more about him from the Internet.'
Mr. Everett's family was a heartrending source of inspiration for his most notable work, the 1998 album 'Electro-Shock Blues' (DreamWorks), written after his sister committed suicide and h...
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