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articulated in our S.T.E.E.L. principles project/panopticon

U.S. Steel regrouped and in 2018 created a new plan and a new slogan.

“Underlying our efforts,” the company wrote, “is our belief that we must operate as a principled company committed to a code of conduct that is rooted in our Gary Principles and our core values.” Those core values are “articul…

—p.8 When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm Introduction: When McKinsey Comes to Town (1) by Michael Forsythe, Walt Bogdanich
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union yes, McKinsey no

The layoffs and safety concerns did not dissuade U.S. Steel from going forward with its plan to issue 21.7 million new shares of stock. This special stock offering, which raised $482 million, occurred in August, the same month the union accused the company of gutting its maintenance department. Ang…

—p.5 Introduction: When McKinsey Comes to Town (1) by Michael Forsythe, Walt Bogdanich
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a technicality they don’t deserve topic/heartbreak

[...] I would try not to put too much weight on the moments that are the worst in marriage: when one of you is in a good mood and the other can’t recognize it or rise to its occasion and so leaves the other dangling in the loneliness of it; when one of you pretends to not really understand what the…

—p.370 Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel Part Three: Rachel Fleishman Is in Trouble (293) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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time was going to march on anyway

That summer, I treated poor Adam like a roommate. I came home late. I ordered Chinese food for dinner again and again. He mentioned once that I was ordering Chinese a lot and so I ordered Thai. I dared him in the mornings to ask me questions so that I could tell him about how I didn’t know how to l…

—p.366 Part Three: Rachel Fleishman Is in Trouble (293) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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you still had to tiptoe around the fragility of a man

Rachel and I, we’d been raised to do what we wanted to do, and we had; we’d been successful, and we’d shown everyone. We didn’t need to wear apocryphal T-shirts because we already knew the secret, which was this: that when you did succeed, when you did outearn and outpace, when you did exceed all e…

—p.363 Part Three: Rachel Fleishman Is in Trouble (293) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner