Since Puryear joined Lante, he's lured a dozen top executives from companies like EDS, IBM and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, including a hotshot chief financial officer from Cincinnati Bell spinoff Convergys (see box, p. 128).

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Built on the NationBuilder platform, a startup that has been catering to smaller organizations looking for less expensive "campaign in a box" tools, NewtHampshire has every bell and whistle you could ask for: user profiles, badges to reward volunteer activity, tracking links so users can monitor their own progress recruiting others, event hosting tools and a public leaderboard to spur activity.

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To the rescue have come a plethora of scientific processes aimed to guide the hapless leader: defined competencies, performance criteria, psychometric assessments, structured feedback, bell curves, 4-quadrant matrices, 9-box grids, circumplexes, weightings and ratings.

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She is treading where the giants of media and technology -- Time Warner, Bell Atlantic and Microsoft, among them -- have already stumbled (see box, p. 116).

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Bell made it 4-2 with a great shot from the edge of the box and then Dallas burst through to clip the ball in with his left foot for the home side's fifth.

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Shortly after he arrived as chief executive officer in July 1993, he gave the go-ahead to develop a supercharged digital box to serve a new world of fully interactive video networks to be built by the regional Bell telephone companies, Time Warner and others.

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Bell had to make another good block from Jennings as the Motherwell midfielder powered into the penalty box to gather a cute lay-off from Murphy.

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