If there's a single management secret to be learned from the man, for instance, it's about how important it is to delegate.
Both of these pieces have prompted my thinking about what is perhaps the single greatest secret to my own success, not only in business, but also in reaching personal goals in areas such as music and athletics and fitness.
As the head of Google's antiwebspam team, he's rewriting the complex set of rules for ranking Web pages based on their relevance to a given query, which is the company's DNA, its single most important product and a trade secret more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.
When I came out to my own mother, at 40 years old, I was a parent, I had been married to a woman I loved for 20 years, I had a successful career, we owned two homes, and there wasn't a single person who would have guessed my secret or my struggle.
While it is one of Coke's largest single customers, the convenience chain has a secret weapon.
Mel Brooks, a seasoned variety-show comedy writer at the time, wrote the pilot for Get Smart, which aired on NBC in 1965 and appeared alongside I Spy on the same network, another show that was styled on two secret service agents who are identifiably single, male characters.
And when Governor Romney had his chance to let you in on his secret, he did not offer a single new idea, just retreads of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle class for years.
And when my opponent had the chance to offer his secret sauce, he did not offer a single new idea.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Norfolk, VA
And when Governor Romney finally had a chance to reveal the secret sauce, he did not offer a single new idea.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Boulder, CO
Wuthering Heights had such a rapturous response that they hoped to release it as a single and put it on their new album, The Secret of Life - but Bush, or one of her representatives, refused.
John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, explained how "having a clear focus" and a bit of pressure was the secret to bringing in "the biggest regeneration in a single place since World War II" on time and within the budget.
Criminal cases are conducted in secret, and in writing (and the papers sewn together) by a single investigating judge, who directs police inquiries, weighs the evidence, and brings charges.
But the proposal to elect select committee members by secret ballot rather than through the nomination of party whips was blocked by a single cry of "object" from the Labour backbenches and will be debated and voted on next week.
As President, I get to meet and work with a lot of extraordinary law enforcement officers every single day, from men and women who protect me and my family -- the folks in the Secret Service -- to local police who help out on motorcades in events around the country.
It is an "open secret" in Whitehall that the plans, which aim to bring most benefits and tax credits under a single payment called the "universal credit", are in trouble, Mr Byrne claimed in the Commons.
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