Best & Worst Executives of 2003
BusinessWeek magazine has done a list -- a ranking of the best and worst of (mostly American) executives in 2003. It's an interesting read to see what sets apart the best from the worst -- and if there's any group you want to emulate, it's the best, as the law has little patience and a bigger stick for the worst. After the performance of the worst in 2003, there is even more scrutiny being place on executives now. Which can only mean a good thing for shareholders and investors alike. Of note: Vivek Paul, of Wipro, an Indian IT Services firm; Steve Jobs of Apple/Pixar -- and others, but your turn to pick!
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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