Yet the real reason for fading fads is not that executives have built into their everyday activities such now-familiar ideas as core competences and total-quality management.
Her choreography draws from an established vocabulary yes, there are jazz hands, the familiar cabaret-style hand waggling, in "Anything Goes" or ideas she finds by chance.
This mixture meant that the artists could interact efficiently they had a familiar structure to fall back on but they also managed to incorporate some new ideas.
The highly unorthodox fund would give money to inventors in places like Japan and China to work on ideas that were still in the early stages of development, says a person familiar with its operations.