In the past, risk managers' pay was commonly determined or heavily influenced by the managers of the trading desks they oversaw, or their bonus linked to the desks' performance, says Richard Apostolik, who heads the Global Association of Risk Professionals GARPP).
In the process of clearing his desk as performance director having elected to give up the role at the end of this month, Keen is in reflective mood.
In 1972 he won the 1972 Drama Desk Outstanding Performance Award for his portrayal of the bigoted dying basketball coach hosting a 20th-anniversary reunion of his victorious small-town Catholic high school team in the original production of Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season (Booth Theatre, 1972-74).
To the left stood a stage for the band and between the stage and the desk a performance space and entryway, curtained at the rear with lights.
If we just did the counterintuitive – took a break, talked to colleagues, walked up and down some stairs, went to bed sooner, took the time to make a decent lunch and ate that lunch with other people rather than at our desks – our performance would go up, our time on task would go down and our quality of life would improve.
Durning's Drama Desk Award-winning performance as one of four former high school basketball players who reunite with their old coach led to his being cast as the corrupt police lieutenant in "The Sting," the Oscar-winning 1973 movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
(Unlike the Broadway-only Tonys, the Drama Desk also considers performances from Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway -- all competing in the same categories).
At his SoHo boutique, the avant-garde designer Ingo Maurer offers a high-performance desk lamp with white diodes bristling on a green circuit board, wittily mounted on a pair of pliers.
Since 2008 a recurring feature has been Tiny Desk Concerts, a short performance filmed at the NPR office in Washington.
