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Architecture & Engineering


Clive Shearer
Management
by Design
By Clive Shearer
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January 11, 2006

Mangement By Design: Waiting is still hard, even in nanoseconds

  • In a fast-paced business world, it's important to establish ground rules that keep people patient and calm.
    • By CLIVE SHEARER
    Special to the Journal

    Life seems to revolve around waiting.

    As little children, we wait to get bigger: "I'm almost four and a half." And the desire to be an adult starts early on: "I want to be a doctor when I grow up." As young teens, we are anxious to drive: "Can I steer the car?" And teens rush to be treated as equal to their parents: "Why can't I choose my own friends?"


     
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