But Haier, using its boot-camp approach, turned the company around without investing a penny of its own cash.
Executives, meanwhile, admit that the boot-camp approach that serves so well in China may not suit less deferential workers elsewhere.
He rolled, boot-camp style, a protected ball, in the shelter of a baby grand, from which he eyed the dog with dread.
The regime is strict, the style that of a military boot-camp.
Then the boot-camp atmosphere toughens them for business battle.
This columnist once heard Mr Welch tell a chief executives' boot-camp that the key was to have the compensation committee chaired by someone older and richer than you, who would not be threatened by the idea of your getting rich too.
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Would-be salespeople undergo a one-week crash course -- a combined boot camp and pep rally -- that hammers home basic principles of selling and character- building.
Others in the boot camp-style incarceration program were dispatched to the tall walls of the palace with buckets of slush to fit between blocks like mortar.
Four days a week, Mr. Katechis has a personal trainer teach boot camp-style classes at the company gym he had built next to the brewery in 2008.
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YC's three-month boot camp for startups, run twice a year in Mountain View, Calif.
Most Sprint welfare hires start with six weeks of basic-skills boot camp at Kansas City's Metropolitan Community Colleges.
For participants of the Entrepreneurs Challenge, getting up on a Sunday morning and attending the day-long Boot Camp was the beginning of that long journey.
The man behind the soft-skills boot camp is Paul Redmond.
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The company just completed a 3-month boot camp run by investment and coaching group, Greenstart, to help young green tech companies make a big push in tackling new markets.
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The people at Greenstart, which runs a 3-month boot camp for green tech startups, believe they have figured out a good syllabus and outlind it, along with four new entrants for their program, on Tuesday.
New hires -- even seasoned executives -- must complete a six-week "boot camp" and pass tests on the company's software and marketing message.
There had been criticism of England's so-called "boot camp" in Germany which contained some bouts of boxing between the players and resulted in reported rib injuries to bowlers James Anderson and Chris Tremlett.
While Stiller was making "Empire of the Sun, " his colleagues were in boot camps training for their military roles -- and would emerge talking about the boot camp as if they'd become part of a real military unit.
And from there the top 16 went on to Silverstone, England for a week-long racing school boot camp.
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Michael Comberiate, a retired NASA engineer and manager of Goddard's Engineering Boot Camp said the Earth-bound Greenland Rover is similar to NASA missions off the planet.
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New students getting masters of management degrees at Nyenrode Business School, in the Netherlands, find themselves in a "boot camp" run by ex-marines, where they are taught to be not just good leaders but good followers, too.
Since its inception at the boot camp, GROVER has been fine-tuned, with NASA funding, at Boise State.
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Furthermore, the study raised as its ideal the policy to which the Marines have adhered all along: single-sex basic training ("boot camp"), segregated barracks and tougher physical training.
"Rather than trying to optimize for profit on this one spike, you should do everything in your power to exceed your customers' expectations and convert the huge influx of new customers into lifelong fans, " says Troy Henikoff, co-founder and chief executive officer of Excelerate Labs, a startup boot camp in Chicago.
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There is an older book, 'Battling the Inner Dummy, ' that offers an interesting concept -- 'controlled trauma to induce transformation' and offers this illustration: 'Boot camp ... can be thought of as an example of controlled trauma that is designed to foster traits like loyalty and obedience.
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