Bringing wood and coal is more efficient then bringing stacks of torches.
"One client even brings stacks of $1,000 in singles," Mr. Bulla said, "so he can make it rain, showering people on the dance floor with dollar bills".
Re-engineering turned CSC Index, a consultancy which Mr Champy helped to set up in the late 1970s, into a roaring success; it also brought stacks of business for Texas Instruments, the consultancy Mr Hammer joined.For the past decade Mr Prahalad and Mr Hamel have wielded the sort of influence with top bosses that makes the McKinseys of this world a little nervous.
"She would bring home stacks of books from Barnes & Noble," Mr. Diaz said.
Mr. Zwigoff's wife, Melissa Axelrod, was working then at the Last Gasp Publishing Company, a comic book publisher, and she would bring home stacks of their comics.
You see, Danielle's father, who died when she was a child, used to bring home stacks of books including Sir Thomas More's "Utopia," which was instrumental in shaping her vision of 16th-century France as an enlightened monarchy.
His son Joseph Perl of Oakland, who is also a researcher at SLAC, recalls that when he was in middle school his father would bring home stacks of accordion-folded computer printouts and pay him and his siblings to carefully tear them apart along the perforations.
On a more positive note, at least for die-hard Delicious del.icio.us fans, Aly also promises to bring back Stacks.
Ask him about quality control, and Wolfington bounds across his office, gets on his phone and calls in one minion after another to bring in stacks of performance reports from around the world.
